News The Last x86 Via Chip: Unreleased Next-Gen Centaur CNS Saved From Trash Bin, Tested

[Admin]

A Twitter user buys a Centaur CNS from a liquidation auction and proceeds to put it through its paces.

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[Findecanor]

Consider that the Ryzen 3400G has four cores / eight threads running at up to 4 GHz whereas this chip has eight cores at "only" 2.2 GHz.

Not an unusual clock for a server chip BTW.

 

[CRITICALThinker]

I hope that if tomshardware does another article on this they put a bit more effort into their reporting. As someone who participated in the auction with Brutus (he was our man on the ground and will be doing logistics, would never have heard about the auction if it wasn't for him).

How the hell could a tech reporter ignore the clock speed entirely when comparing performance... It's appalling really. Further information on this article is that the multiplier on the boards is fully unlocked, however we aren't quite sure how it's handled since it's very unpolished. It has booted at 2.5ghz and 1.2v to my knowledge, but like all VIA architectures it unlikely will go much higher and I doubt many people are crazy enough to do much overclocking on such a rare cpu.

 

[escksu]

I would say it looks pretty decent for a CPU thats ~2.5GHz @ 65W. Single core speed seems slow but I don't think thats running at boosted speeds. If the core is running at over 4GHz, it will be alot close the 6600.

Of course, its not going to match Intel/AMD CPUs but its not that far away (not like bulldozer days).

 

[missingxtension]

I hope that if tomshardware does another article on this they put a bit more effort into their reporting. As someone who participated in the auction with Brutus (he was our man on the ground and will be doing logistics, would never have heard about the auction if it wasn't for him).

How the hell could a tech reporter ignore the clock speed entirely when comparing performance... It's appalling really. Further information on this article is that the multiplier on the boards is fully unlocked, however we aren't quite sure how it's handled since it's very unpolished. It has booted at 2.5ghz and 1.2v to my knowledge, but like all VIA architectures it unlikely will go much higher and I doubt many people are crazy enough to do much overclocking on such a rare cpu.

Very disappointed..I was expecting some actual details, like what mother board is it running on, how well does linux run, or something more relevant. Luckily I read the comments and actually got some information

 

[jkflipflop98]

I had a Centaur way back when. The processor's ID comes back as "CentaurHauls".

 

[Soul_keeper]

via had quality designs imo. They were just too small, too late, and a node or two behind everytime.
I had always hoped they'd release something competitive. The same with Transmeta, too bad all the x86 competitors are gone.
I also liked the via Socket A chipsets, kt133 kt133a. They had good memory controllers at the time.