Friday, November 11th 2011
VIA Releases VIA VE-900 Mini-ITX Mainboard for Digital Home Media Enthusiasts
VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the VIA VE-900 Mini-ITX Mainboard, immediately available worldwide at incredibly competitive pricing. The VIA VE-900 Mini-ITX provides the ideal platform for DIY enthusiasts to custom build stylish home desktop and media center PCs.
Featuring a high-performance 1.4GHz VIA Nano X2 dual core processor and the VIA VX900 unified all-in-one media system processor, the VIA VE-900 Mini-ITX Mainboard delivers a highly optimized platform that boasts stunning HD video performance of the most demanding video formats at resolutions of up to 1080p. The VIA VE-900 Mini-ITX also supports high fidelity surround sound through the VIA VT1708S HD audio codec which delivers amazing stereo 24-bit resolution and up to 192kHz sample rates and adds HDMI support in a compact, power-efficient package.
"November 6th marked the 10 year anniversary of the Mini-ITX form factor which spurred a revolution in the modding community," said Richard Brown, Vice President of Marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc. "The VIA VE-900 delivers an affordable, high performance Mini-ITX mainboard that will spur a new wave of inspiration and innovation in the next generation of enthusiasts."
VIA VE-900 Mini-ITX desktop board
The VIA VE-900 Mini-ITX Mainboard, measuring 17cm, x 17cm, pairs a 1.4 GHz VIA Nano X2 CPU with the VIA VX900 MSP. In addition to enabling support for up to 8GB of DDR3 system memory, the VIA VX900 MSP features the latest ChromotionHD 2.0 video engine, boasting comprehensive hardware acceleration for the latest VC1, H.264, MPEG-2 and WMV9 HD formats at screen resolutions of up to 1080p without incurring a heavy CPU load. Display connectivity support includes onboard HDMI and VGA.
Rear panel I/O includes a Gigabit LAN port, HDMI port, VGA port, four USB 2.0 ports, one PS/2 K/B and M/S port, one serial port and three audio jacks for line-out/in/Mic-in. An onboard PCI slot is accompanied with 2 SATA pin headers, four USB 2.0 ports and LPT support.
Pricing and availability
The VIA VE-900 Mini-ITX Mainboard is currently available, for pricing and ordering information please contact your local VIA representative or us at mkt@via.com.tw.
For more information about the VIA VE-900 Mini-ITX Mainboard please visit this page.
Featuring a high-performance 1.4GHz VIA Nano X2 dual core processor and the VIA VX900 unified all-in-one media system processor, the VIA VE-900 Mini-ITX Mainboard delivers a highly optimized platform that boasts stunning HD video performance of the most demanding video formats at resolutions of up to 1080p. The VIA VE-900 Mini-ITX also supports high fidelity surround sound through the VIA VT1708S HD audio codec which delivers amazing stereo 24-bit resolution and up to 192kHz sample rates and adds HDMI support in a compact, power-efficient package.
VIA VE-900 Mini-ITX desktop board
The VIA VE-900 Mini-ITX Mainboard, measuring 17cm, x 17cm, pairs a 1.4 GHz VIA Nano X2 CPU with the VIA VX900 MSP. In addition to enabling support for up to 8GB of DDR3 system memory, the VIA VX900 MSP features the latest ChromotionHD 2.0 video engine, boasting comprehensive hardware acceleration for the latest VC1, H.264, MPEG-2 and WMV9 HD formats at screen resolutions of up to 1080p without incurring a heavy CPU load. Display connectivity support includes onboard HDMI and VGA.
Rear panel I/O includes a Gigabit LAN port, HDMI port, VGA port, four USB 2.0 ports, one PS/2 K/B and M/S port, one serial port and three audio jacks for line-out/in/Mic-in. An onboard PCI slot is accompanied with 2 SATA pin headers, four USB 2.0 ports and LPT support.
Pricing and availability
The VIA VE-900 Mini-ITX Mainboard is currently available, for pricing and ordering information please contact your local VIA representative or us at mkt@via.com.tw.
For more information about the VIA VE-900 Mini-ITX Mainboard please visit this page.
21 Comments on VIA Releases VIA VE-900 Mini-ITX Mainboard for Digital Home Media Enthusiasts
This board is about as good for an HTC as not all. If it didn't have that HDMI port, it'd be entirely useless.
On top of that it'll most like cost the better part of €150, so no-one's going to buy it anyhow.
Way too little, way way too late VIA...
That said, I'd get an AMD E-350 or E-450 board over this any day
This board looks like it should be 5 years old. Standard VIA product release strategy come to think of it.
Nothing on this board makes sense. I was going to say if it's cheap enough, ideal to build a simple nettop. But you wouldn't, because it doesn't have a DVI option. And no wireless.
They're pushing it as a media board, but your only decent audio option is HDMI.
Jebus. I try hard to be a VIA fanboy. I really do. And this is what I get?
lol. I read that last sentence, I realise I said the same thing to AMD when Bulldozer came out. Maybe I should just give up and go make love to Intel.
I'd love to see VIA get back as a serious competitor, but with such crappy products, good luck with that pals...
Anyway, meh. I want them to push the smaller ITX form factors more. It's still nice to see them dual cores though, they're not that bad.
Look at it:
www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=PV530-ITX
or
www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=PV530
VIA is old player in mini itx, but sadly they aint change much when the other fill their mini itx board with latest features, VIA still run on this features.
I tried to use wifi on my mediacentre and it wasnt up to the task of streaming media so i dont find wifi a viable option for a htpc (mediacentre extender tv streaming scenario)
The legacy ports seem to indicate that this board is more suited to office/industrial applications... like most via products
that said if they need to move some surplus stock why not say:
"Hey it could make a okay media box"
to a bunch of enthusiasts on a tech forum..:)
the ones with the ability to configure cisco gear without having to muck around.