This CPU is soldered onto a PC Chips M789CG motherboard and was sold as VIA C3 2000+ CPU. The motherboard is dated 2006 so selling an underpowered 800MHz part as '2000+' is quite misleading. In that time-frame it would've been fair enough as budget thin client but not as regular desktop system.

I've benchmarked this CPU using it's own PC Chips motherboard. I've used 2x256MB DDR-SDRAM memory modules clocked at 133MHz (DDR266, CL2.5). The VIA CLE266 chipset doesn't support faster. I've also noticed that the S3 UniChrome integrated VGA is surprisingly slow even in 2D Windows!

In the benchmarks I didn't include the Hexus PiFast! scores because they would be too far off and destroy the readability of the graph. The score I measued was 632.39 seconds which is awfully slow. The same goes for Lame MP3 encoding; it takes 230 seconds to convert the WAV to MP3 file. > Read more

A lot like this VIA C3 800A except that this is the socket S370 variant. Performance-wise it will be identical but being a socketed CPU the choice of motherboard is still possible which could work out positively in terms of performance.

I haven't benchmarked it yet but whenever I have my S370 running again I'll benchmark the VIA C3 CPU's I have collected.

This version of the C3 800A doesn't have SMD chips on top despite that the contact points on top of the CPU are available. I have another C3 800A that does have the SMD's on top. > Read more

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