bomfunk

Anyone know them? They any good? I was thinking of building a low-cost energy-efficient silent computer for "normal stuff" (installing Linux on it), and noticed they have VIA mobo+CPU sets available - even better, many of them take DDR RAM, and I have heaps spare sticks lying around from my previously busted rig, so I could get one of them things... but I really need to know whether they're reliable or not.

The fact that they take ye olde DDR (and some take even SDRAM which I have galore too) is the main reason I'm contemplaiting VIA CPUs - and before any remarks on their performance - I know! I'd just like something that would perform better than my 866MHz Coppermine Pentium-3 rigs. Just to give an ide of what kinda performance I can easily live with, I've used a 1.8GHz 939 Sempron (128KB cache) underclocked to 1GHz (lowest possible b/c of HT) - so I'm really not after a performance monster, the sig rig will handle that role.

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Matteh

I've heard some mixed reports about Pioneer Computers, I know someone who owns one of their laptops and hasn't had any problems with it though. In the end, I assume you're buying desktop parts, you should be fine as most of the problems I've heard of have been structural problems of the laptop shells, and those problems have been repaired by Pioneer.

BradleyW

never heard of it.

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