Thus spake coderman (coderman@gmail.com) [11/03/06 01:59]: : > (Actually, something else I'd like to see: A C7 with >4 on-board NICs, or a : > full-size ATX C7. They make great little routers.) : : www.routerboard.com has some PCI quad port NIC's with the same VIA : rhine chips; unfortunately 2 NIC's is the most i've seen ship on the : mini-itx. : (routerboard also has a PCI to 4 x miniPCI adapter that is great for : wireless gear) I've contemplated going the quad-NIC route, but that still doesn't alleviate my two other requirements: RAID card and wireles adapter. : i've used the PCI riser/adapter to mount two PCI cards horizontally : off the mini-itx for adding a quad port ethernet (4xtulip) and a quad : mPCI filled with atheros CM9 radios. best little router you can ask : for, IMHO. Agreed. Until you require three physically distinct PCI cards. Unless there's a triple-riser card out there I've not yet come across (likely there is). What distinguishes the C5P from the C3? Aside from specs, I mean: how would I be able to identify one? (It's almost as if VIA is trying to kill the line off.) : this would be easy (easier at least) with a nano-itx form factor. i : know they make boards with LVDS video built on, but they seem to be : hard to get ahold of, mainly for OEM applications rather than direct : retail. it will be interesting to see how this plays out... <http://www.mini-itx.com/> has always seemed to have stock of LVDS-based boards. That's what I was using in the original C3-based home-brew laptop.