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Along with developing chipsets for Intel and AMD systems, Via has been improving the features, performance and connectivity of its Epia Mini-ITX motherboards.
The MII1200 uses the latest Via Nehemiah C3 processor, the C5P. The board also features Via's Padlock Advanced Cryptography Engine (ACE) and an integrated Cardbus controller.
The C5P is a 0.13micron chip, running at 1.2GHz with 64KB of full-speed Level 2 cache. Instead of the AMD 3DNow instruction set, the new chip supports Intel's SSE instructions. This, along with a full-speed floating-point unit (FPU), should improve 3D performance.
The board features a Random Number Generator and with Padlock ACE there's extra performance for data encryption and decryption. It can encrypt or decrypt data at a rate of 12.8Gbits/sec and ACE supports all three AES key sizes - 128, 196 and 256bit in hardware.
Both the Via Apollo CLE266 northbridge and the VT8235 southbridge sit under a passive double heatsink. The CLE266 houses a single Dimm slot for up to 1GB of DDR266 memory and an integrated S3 Unichrome graphics chip. This provides just rudimentary 3D performance as it's primarily a 128bit 2D graphics engine optimised for multimedia playback.
It also has an integrated mpeg2 decoder. The southbridge brings support for Ultra ATA133, 10/100Base-T Ethernet, six USB2 ports and 5.1 multichannel audio.
The back panel of the MII1200 shows just how much you can get on a small platform. Including the card reader there are 15 ports: two PS/2, serial, VGA, Lan, two USB2, S-video, RCA (which can switch between composite video or S/PDIF audio port), three audio and a single Firewire port.
Contact: www.mini-itx.com
Specifications:
- 1.2GHz Via C5P processor
- 64KB Level 2 cache
- Intel SSE instructions
- Padlock Advanced Cryptography Engine
- S3 Unichrome graphics
- 1 Dimm slot, 2 PS/2, 1 serial, VGA, Ethernet, 2 USB2, composite video/S/PDIF, S-video, 1 Firewire port
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