Bruce Anderson wrote:
> 
> Your Centris 650 has a 16MHz I/O bus and no L2 cache.
> compair that with a 486 mother board I have laying about
>  64-256K L2 and I/O bus speed of 16 to 50MHz.

OK, and what about a 386 33 MHz from 1991 (the reference machine of byte
benchmark, because the fastest PC they found when they issued the test).
I think it has an even slower I/O bus and no L2 cache (nor L1 by the way !).
So I can't understand the difference...

Don't you think it could be interesting to know bytemark results
of a few of our machines ?

You could download it and view Linux PC results at:

http://www.silkroad.com/bass/linux/