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The MicroClient Sr. CPU – VIA Eden ULV Processor

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Graham Dinsdale

Just a quick post with a little in depth information about the CPU in the MicroClient Sr.

The CPU is made by VIA and is from the Eden ULV family. ULV stands for Ultra Low Voltage. The clock speed is 500MHz with a Front Side Bus (FSB) speed of 400MHz. Power consumption is extremely low at only 1W! The Level 2 (L2) cache is 128kb and the CPU also has support for SSE2 and the advanced SSE3 multimedia 3D instruction sets.

You can read more about it in detail here.

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5 Responses

  1. pbunnun, on March 2nd, 2008 at 12:36 am Said:

    I don’t have the MicroClient Sr. yet but considering to order it. I’d like to have a small pc that can boot to X-Window within 30 sec with a reasonable price :-) . I’m thinking of using a suspend to ram but I don’t know whether it can or cannot.

    Have you used a standby or suspend mode in MicroClient Sr? How long does it take to boot up X-Window from a cold boot?

    Thank you in advance.

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  2. Graham Dinsdale, on March 3rd, 2008 at 8:19 am Said:

    Hi pbunnun, thanks for looking at my site. :-) I haven’t tried to use my MicroClient Sr. in a standby or suspend mode yet, but I don’t see why it would not be possible.

    I’m running Xubuntu on my MicroClient Sr. which is a fairly big operating system compared to others (Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux etc.) so the cold boot times are longer. I would say I have the Xubuntu login screen 45-60 seconds from switch on.

    I will try and test some kind of suspend/standby feature and I will let you know…

    Thanks,

    Graham :-)

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  3. pbunnun, on March 3rd, 2008 at 11:40 am Said:

    Thanks a lot. I hope it can.

    I’m not sure whether it can use a suspend mode or not because its’ spec. doesn’t say anything about ACPI support. If it supports, what states are supported. If S3 and S4 are supported, it should be possible to suspend to ram or hibernate but another question will be “Does it work in Linux?” :-) .

    Pished
    ps. Would you please dump a kernel message via dmesg in your blog? I think it will be very useful information for someone who want to use Linux in MicroClient Sr.

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  4. Graham Dinsdale, on March 3rd, 2008 at 11:56 am Said:

    I will post a dmesg output when I get home from work. I’m sure many people will find it useful.

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  5. MicroClient Sr. - Kernel Dump « Adventures with the Norhtec Microclient, on March 4th, 2008 at 8:21 am Said:

    [...] Sr. – Kernel Dump Posted on March 4, 2008 by Graham Dinsdale As requested by pbunnun in the comments here is a kernel dump via dmesg from my MicroClient Sr. Hope this is of some use to someone out [...]

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