For brevity and focus, we're sticking with basic Sisoft Sandra 2001 Pro benchmarks/tests this time around, although I did "burn in" test the machine for nearly 20 hours with a combination of HotCPU Lite, and letting some Quake3Arena bots go at it non stop concurrently. I was able to achieve rock solid stability with this CPU @ 6x140FSB (840mhz). I wish I would have had a CPU that could nudge beyond 900-1000 @ 100FSB, because I feel the CPU in this instance was limiting me from going beyond 140. It's not a bad CPU, but not the best 650 tbird I've tested.. At any rate, here are the results.
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Sandra's CPU benchmark, a purely synthetic bench, shows the CPU performing as it should at 840mhz. With my stick of PC150 Mushkin, I had no worries running the memory at it's fastest possible timings, and with 4-way interleaving enabled, we have a very respectable showing here in the memory bandwidth number.
We can certainly see that the Quantum Fireball AS 30GB ATA/100 HDD is performing at it's potential here, with the Soyo's ATA/100 capable 686B Southbridge. ~23,000 is an excellent single drive score here.