Via Technologies is a pretty under-rated CPU manufacturer, you barely get to hear about them! Anyway one day, I went through their website and discovered why they were so unpopular. Correct me if I am wrong here, but I found that their fastest processors were only a measly 1.8 GHz single core and they are still producing 800 MHz CPUs! I mean who the hell would want those (even if they cost 10% of the price of an Intel). Besides I think that they need specialized slots in motherboards and not many motherboards would support these crap CPUs (or they might have made them compatible with LGA-774 and AM2+ sockets