[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Cheap Hardware - $56 motherboard/CPU

[Jack Snodgrass]

I'm posting this using a new motherboard I bought
at the 3rd Saturday Sidewalk sale. The motherboard
contains the following:
1Ghz VIA C3 CPU ( /proc/cpu info says 733Mhz ) 
10/100 Lan
Video 
MicroATX ( 3 pci slots ) 
modem riser slot ( no modem ) 
Audio

( this may be the same thing that is in the 
FRY's cheap linux pc ) 

I hooked up 64Meg or Memory, hardrive and cdrom 
and installed RedHat 8.0. ( I had to add another 
64Meg memory stick to make this work well.) RH
and 64Meg does't work well ( the video used 16M
of the 64Meg... there was a lot of paging with the 
GUI Up. ) 

Out of the box ( other than having to use text install
instead of gui install ) the 
Video, 
Lan, 
and Audio are supported/detected at install time. 

/proc/cpu info shows:
[root at localhost root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : CentaurHauls
cpu family      : 6
model           : 7
model name      : VIA Ezra
stepping        : 10
cpu MHz         : 735.007
cache size      : 64 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow
bogomips        : 1468.00


anyway... not bad for $56. I've got the business card 
of the place ( in Plano ) if anyone wants it. 

Would be a good candidate for a router. 

jack