VIA C3 750 MHz processor

Advantages: Cheap, respectable looking clockspeeds
Disadvantages: Blown away by the old Joshua design, nearly equalled by the MII at half the clock speed, bad benchmarks, bad press

...However not long before relesase VIA chose to use the Winchip 4 core from Centaur and to be frank this core doesnt have a patch on Joshua, in fact its crap. The benchmarks have come out and based on the benchmarks I saw, comparing the NewCyrixIII-533 and the NewCyrixIII-666 and the Cyrix MII-333 and the JoshuaCyrixIII-PR433 the new Centaur core is shown to be an absolute joke. In some of the benchmarks the MII-333 (a more 3 year old design) is only ...
...CyrixIII running at genuine 533. VIA could have had a nice little chip in the Joshua one which would have had pretty decent gaming performance coupled with the famous excellent integer/business performance that all Cyrix CPU's offer but quite frankly, VIA blew it. Only consider this chip if your main concern is business tasks like word processing and spreadsheets, dont think about it for games cos the Samual core of the Cyrix III as opposed to the ... Read review

Yes, this CPU is not overly fast. However, if you are belonging to the older generation who is looking for a little internet and typing some letters - and maybe living in a boat or trailer where power consumption is important then this could be the computer for you. I think that the makers of VIA computer should not just think about price but also make sure that their computers can run (much) longer without battery. That is very important too. Another factor is to make sure the computers run cool - and are not hot to touch...for many users that is important too. Http://www.lookrichforless.com

Advantages: Cheap, Good power:cost ratio
Disadvantages: Not HighEnd

When you're evaluating this product please don't forget that it's probably only costing you £15/£20 pounds and it IS a budget processor. There is speed to be had in this processor but it's NOT 333 Mhz of speed. It's a cleverly multiplied low-end processor which has a very high effective speed. The best situation for this chip is where you could normally only fit a P166 Mhz chip. Older machines. Once excellent place for this chip is in network servers. ...
...pick-up a rack-mountable Compaq Proliant server which support 4 processors (P166) for about £250. Buy four of these and fit them and you've got an awesome little server for under £350. Add extra memory and a good HD system and you've got a VERY capabale multi-function server capable of sevicing over 1000 users on a LAN. I know this as I've done it to great effect. ... Read review

Advantages: cheap, cheap motherboards available
Disadvantages: pretty slow, can get better performance if you dont pay too much more

...looking design from Cyrix, however VIA stepped in and seemingly ruined this by putting the design from the Centaur or Winchip team in. This has had disasterous consequences with the CPU becoming a laughing stock because of its very poor benchmarks. Its the one CPU that makes my Cyrix MII look speedy!!!!! I am trying to find a reason to reccommend this CPU to you and thinking about it I can only think of 1 and that is price. However I then think that ...
...and this is supposed to be a lot quicker than a Celeron and yet the Celeron leaves the Cyrix III trailing in its dust. However the one thing the Cyrix III has in its favour over the Duron is that you can pick up cheapish socket 370 motherboards particularly ones with onboard sound and video etc for around 60-00 and yet a decent Duron board can set you back easily 100-00 and thats without sound and graphics. Overall if your doing no extensive FPU ... Read review

Advantages: its cheap
Disadvantages: its not a power chip

VIA Technologies Cyrix III This processor is designed for entry level pcs but has much more to offer than Intel’s Celerons but fails short of AMD Durons but it does offer more performance than people think with both MMX and 3Dnow as well as being the first processor to offer 0.13 micron beating the others to this crown and the fastest model is 833 but the prices are very cheap and for those who want a basic machine for ... Read review