VIA today announces a 1GHz C3 processor version of its Mini-ITX mainboard. And it has set its sights on an application and a place for the little beast - Digital media centres and little PCs in the home.
The company reckons the VIA EPIA M10000 Mini-ITX Mainboard, to give the mini-mobo its full title, is 50 per cent quieter than an "average" PC, citing an independent test which recorded 25dBA at one meter. According to VIA, the average PC noise ranges between 35dba and 50dba (the A weighted decibel scale is, as you well know, logarithmic) and "and can be equated to the noise made by an old refrigerator".
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