Been dying to cobble together some code for one of those high-falutin', big-ticket
Everex gPCs, but just couldn't scrape together the $199? Well friends, fear not -- your spot in the poor house won't keep you from writing that killer app, thanks to VIA's generous offering of the $60 "dev board." What can you expect from this package? Well first off, it's not a package, it's a mediocre motherboard with a "bundled" CD of the gOS. The Linux-based gOS addition isn't really too impressive, considering it's open source, free, and available for download from Everex's site... but hey, who's keeping score? Slap on a case, power supply, hard drive, optical drive, memory, keyboard, and mouse, and you've got yourself a real honey of a system. If you can do it for less than $200 -- you've made out like a bandit.
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posted Nov 8th 2007 5:06AM
Thats shockingly cheap. Its probably cheaper than buying a ready made cheap computer.
One of these would probably go great in a small, rugged case underneath the seat in my truck. slap gentoo on it and it would probably boot up within 30 seconds if not less. stick a nice sized SSD or CF card in there and store some music. As well as a wifi card so i can copy stuff over wirelessly and shut the thing down when i get home.
I have just convinced myself to get one. Thanks
I have to say I'm pretty interested.... takes up to 2Gig ram as well... and a little extra room to grow over the board the everex is using..
If it only had an x16 slot and ability to handle normal graphics card I'd be in I think...
It would be an ideal board to build an internet cafe I think...
Cheap power... throw couple gigs ram in each and run them all as diskless clients to a central server...
Ha... you could probably set up a whole little cafe for less than a few grand... including furniture and an espresso machine....hahahaha...
- Mike
I can't find the distro on the Everex site. The original article links to www.thinkgos.com for download.
Correct. I downloaded the torrent from their site two weeks ago. ClubIT has the motherboard for $59.99.
http://www.clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=A4842001
http://thegreencompany.servdns.com/thinkgos.com/files/gos-live-1.0.1_386.torrent
Badass, I'll definitely pick one up.
Thanks.
Your note about the add-on being of limited value because it's downloadable is not quite right. The one bundled with the Mobo seems to include commercial codecs for legally playing DVDs and MP3's. The downloadable version does not. That's a bit of a value-add, if you live in a country (like the US) where those things are required.
I bought one of these from Newegg a few years ago and have been using it as a MythTV box with a cheepo PCI video card.
PC Chip V21G V1.0C Via C7 Cn700 2 sticks of 533 memory and an old flex atx netvista box, 20 G hard drive and dvd burner lying around. all totaled $170.
This isnt that impressive considering I bought a full sized PC Chips motherboard for 35 bucks from newegg years ago. And it was actually pretty decent until I put in a gf6800, which choked and caused artifacts in pixel shader 3 games.
Yes, but this is Mini-ITX board, usually used in small space application, like automotive PCs and Media Centers. Plus, this one has a 1.5Ghz VIA CPU included
exactly what I'm looking for. I really want to make a computer and this is perfect. Thanks, engadet. I'm probably also gonna maybe get a amd phenom if it comes out anytime soon.
Seeing as I have all the parts sitting in a box for the past year, I think I just might get one and building me a nice little media center, or router, or something. And I can do it for only $60. Ya that $200 goal, I just toasted it.
Newegg has the PC-Chips version of this (open box) for $39:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813185094R
Identical motherboard with the 1.5ghz chip soldered on. I just picked up one of these to put in my server, where I currently have a old and hot Athlon 1000. I don't need super speed -- just low power. Onboard SATA-150 as well is a nice bonus.
For about the same money, I'd' rather go with the Intel D210GLY board. It can only take a gig of ram, but I think the celeron cpu is a bit more powerful than the via one, even though it runs at a lower clock speed. The form-factor alone makes this a steal.
Regardless, it nice to see powerful via mobo for less than $200. About damn time.