Hello,
Has anyone here tried running Pure Data on the VIA processors, as found on the Mini-ITX or Nano-ITX motherboards? The size of these motherboards is very appealing (the Nano-ITX is only 12x12 cm), but I have read some pretty underwhelming reports of performance on these processors.
We have made a soundserver with an epia board (without moving parts, usb-key as harddisk) see:
http://iem.kug.ac.at/projekte/composition/linux-Soundserver
Not sure how Linux support stands, and I am also not sure if there are ALSA drivers for the built-in soundchips. It would also remain to be seen if the
they works, but bad. Its good for noisy TVs but not for speakers.
small cache size is a problem - it seems like cache size is critical to performance with MAX/MSP.
performance is half of a athlon with same cpu speed, but haveing an 667Mhz via is like an 400MHz pentiumIII which is quite enough for most installation.
mfg winfired