VIA's 1-Watt CPU Pico-ITX motherboard

Though VIA is only a small player on the chipset and processor market, it's quite famous in it's area of expertise. The company has been focusing on extremely efficient processors and chipsets, which can be placed on compact and minimalistic motherboards. VIA has made a new step with it's pico-ITX motherboard, having dimensions of only 10 x 7.2 centimeters, four times smaller than a mini-ITX board. 

Nevertheless, VIA has managed to integrate all necessary components in this small space. The board functions on a VIA Eden processor, which with a power consumption of 1 Watt, takes up less power than Intel's Atom processor. Apart from the processor and chipset, that are covering almost the entire PCB, there are also headers present for one IDE and SATA,  USB2.0, PS/2 and 5.1 audio. The board also has a VGA connector and 100Mbit networkport equipped. On the backside there's room for a single memory module with a maximum capacity of 1 GB. That's pretty much everything needed for a basic system. 

backside VIA pico-ITX motherboard (images come from: Computerbase)

Apart from the efficient VIA Eden 500 MHz processor, the pico-ITX motherboard is also compatible with a much faster VIA-C7-M processor, running at 1,5 GHz. This however, will affect the power consumption.

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