VIA C3 800A

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.

The VIA C3 800A was used in VIA's own 'commercial' video called 'Beat the heat'. They show an Intel Celeron 800 that crashes after 5 seconds when the CPU cooler has been removed. The VIA C3 800A survives the removal of the CPU cooler and continues to run for hours. The video is a response to Tom's Hardware 'What happens when the CPU cooler is removed?' video in which they show what happens when you remove the cooler on a Pentium 4, Pentium !!!, Athlon Thunderbird and Athlon Palomino.