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

[terry]

Jack Snodgrass wrote:

>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 ) 
>
It's definately same CPU.  (I just compared /proc/cpuinfo from my 
ThizLinux box, (which now runs RH8))

If you'll send a picture of it, I'll confirm wheather the board is 
identical or not,  visually.

>
>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
>
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