The VIA Artigo uses the pico-ITX motherboard, which is the smallest motherboard from VIA. The pico-ITX board is primarily designed for embedded applications that need more-than-the-usual horsepower. For example, industrial control, set-top boxes such as singtel's mio TV, car computers, ATMs, even thin clients.
VIA sells the Artigo computer as a hobbyist kit, without RAM or hard disk. My Artigo has the following.
- CPU : VIA C7 (This is a 1 GHz x86 CPU. It also apparently has built-in AES/SHA cryptographic cores!)
- Chipset: VIA VX700 (northbridge, southbridge, integrated graphics, HD audio all in one package). Supports SATA, IDE, USB, DDR2 RAM etc
- RAM: 512 MB
- 3.5" HD: 80 GB
- 4 USB ports
- 1 VGA port
- audio out and in ports
The VX700 chipset diagram
Lets see whats inside
The heat sink is for the C7 CPU and the VX700. I like the low profile heat disspation design.
Harddisk is mounted to the custom chasis mounting.
Removing the hard disk reveals the notebook RAM
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