anyone have experience with MSI Axis 700 Lite?

[bbzidane]

does anyone have any experience with the MSI axis 700 lite
looks to be a nice quiet barebone, but not sure if it is sufficient to be a media center or not

what do you think

[Chris Chan]

For a media centre, you'd be pushing it. C7's are really gutless processors. All I would use it for is web browsing and IRC/IM purposes.

[aidanjm2004]

does anyone have any experience with the MSI axis 700 lite
looks to be a nice quiet barebone, but not sure if it is sufficient to be a media center or not

what do you think

why not go for a core duo in the same package?

viewtopic.php?t=38891

or a low power X2 in AM2 socket:

http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_sp ... &class=npc

[DanRP]

I built one of these out for my firewall/VPN because of the C7 chip. As a general purpose CPU the C7 is no great shakes. But as a VPN or encryption engine a properly configured C7 will blow the doors off of any x86 line general purpose CPU (including 64bit, X2, Core2, server versions, etc.) on encryption. For more information take a look at the Padlock security engine info on Via's website.

With the Axis700 all I had to do was drop in an extra NIC and a USB flash key for storage and I had a fully functional, fast booting, nearly silent firewall/VPN system waiting for a linux install.

Dan