Processor Family: C7
Form Factor: Mini-ITX (4 layer), 17 cm x 17 cm.
CPU Speed: 1.0 GHz (Fan/Heatsink)
Speedstep: No
Chipset:
Onboard LAN:
Memory type: 1x DIMM socket. Up to 1.0GB of DDR SDRAM
Video: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT1625M
Upgradable: Video is soldered to mainboard but a PCI graphics card can be used
Audio: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50).
Expansion:
Back Panel:
BIOS: Award BIOS, 2/4Mbit flash memory.
Monitoring: CPU voltage monitoring, Wake-on-LAN, Keyboard-Power-on, Timer-Power-on, System power management, AC power failure recovery.
I/O Connectors:
This board varies from other VIA Epia mini-ITX motherboards discussed in this HOWTO as it has the VIA C7 processor. The C7 can best be categorized as similar to a 2003-era Intel Celeron - MMX, SSE, SSE2, all i686 instructions, 128K of L1 cache.
The CN10000 supports DDR2 memory and a VT1625M Tv Encoder chip. The high memory bandwidth, and the VT1625M, are a stepping stone to HD output. However, there are no HD outputs (or obviously available headers) on the board. The March 2007 available EPIA EX10000 is the HD board VIA promised.
The board is most interesting for TV-centric applications, thus this guide focuses on video issues, tvout, and sound.
Early 2007 Gentoo (Kernel 2.6.19) works well with the board, with the exception of video.
In particular, USB, IDE, and sound support is highly functional.
One user reports TVOut not working yet for any NTSC format, only for one PAL format.