I have seen advertised a CPU branded Mercury Eclipse 2000. The CPU is Via 2000 with a processor at 796mhz. Has any one feedback good or bad?

Thomas1

Re: Mercury Eclipse 2000 CPU

Google can find no reference to either a "Mercury Eclipse 2000" or a "VIA 2000" running at 796 MHz. Can't say I've ever heard of them either.

Point us to where you saw these terms and we might be able to help you.

VIA produces low-power low-performance for special markets where performance is far far less important than low power consumption.

Re: Mercury Eclipse 2000 CPU

The add was from Target stores cattle dog. In Brisbane.

Re: Mercury Eclipse 2000 CPU

Found it.

The 2000+ isn't a model number for the VIA processor, its an attempt to suggest that it has the performance of a 2GHz Intel CPU. That seems an optimistic rating for an 800 MHz VIA CPU. Plus VIA doesn't sell desktop processors that slow. So the possibility is that its really a bit faster than that. But even if it was it would still only be about as quick as a 2 GHz Intel system.

So what the package is, on the bad side, slow with a no-name brand that would mean that getting replacement parts would be impossible and a non-standard processor you couldn't upgrade, and on the good side, a brand new PC with a warranty and Windows XP and a printer at a very low cost.

I'd say the sort of people it might be a good buy for would be people who just wanted a basic slow as-cheap-as-possible machine for connecting to the internet and running office-type software. And people who wouldn't like it are people who want to run games fast and upgrade it to high performance.

Re: Mercury Eclipse 2000 CPU

I've seen one, my mother-in-law just got given one by a friend. Must admit, I've never heard of them before. They seem to go okay, but I found this post of yours simply by trying to check out this system to find out more about it.