Cheaper than the SV25 board for sure!

[PJ Matthews]

http://www.mini-itx.com/reviews/b860t/

nice alternative for those wishing to buy a shuttle sv24 board and not spend £130 in doing so!

[Zozart]

yeah i read about that yesterday, nice but it wont stop the epia :D

[PJ Matthews]

I think its a slightly different group to the Epia boards. I own three 800 versions of the epia and love them to bits. I wouldn't mind one of these boards however, its great its got a socket, on the downside it doesn't have the feature set of the new Epia M.

[PJ Matthews]

I just found one version of the jetaway board for £53! The other version using a different chipset is slightly more expensive.

PEEJ

[cyberdude2403]

I have a EPIA 800 ... and I am seriously considering getting one of these Jetway boards .. mainly due to the fact that I can put a VIA C3 933MHz chip in it .. and run it with just the heatsink.

However I know my EPIA 800 isn't up to decoding DivX very well .. question is this .. would a VIA C3 933MHz in one of these Jetway boards be any good at DivX decoding each I whacked in a GeForce 2 MX PCI card ?

However I could wait for the EPIA M to come out. But I guess that will be costly .. and I would have to buy DDR RAM to fit in it ( I have lots of SDRAM lying around, so I guess will be cheaper to buy the Jetway board).

Another advantage that springs to mind is this .. if the C3 933 chip is under powered .. I can just pull it out and swap it for a Pentium III or Celeron chip .. no problem .. try doing that with a EPIA board

[cyberdude2403]

Oh yes .. while I remember .. I read on www.mini-itx.com (http://www.mini-itx.com) that the Jetway board doesn't have a back plate included with it :-( ... so my question is .. where on earth am I going to get one from that would fit it?

Thanks

[PJ Matthews]

Maybe you can ask the guys who are selling it?

[PJ Matthews]

Aparantly the P4 version of the board with AGP and PCI isn't far behind :).