Woo!
This thing has been upgraded and is working properly (posting from it now.)

Pushed its pathetic 233mhz up to 333 for now, seems perfectly stable with a good fan, though when I get my 400mhz upgrade card I'm going to push that up to at least 450, maybe 500 if I can get stable performance like that (I've got a big old PC case fan hooked up right next to the proc and it gets a LOT of air flowing.)

Gonna try some version of Linux (most likely Debian/PPC) once the card arrives, I've set aside a 15gb partition for it, same as the mac OS one.

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I would try for 433 or 466 since the bus speed is only 66mhz. i am not sure (cant remember) if you can reach 500 with the stock jumper block without OCing the bus to 83mhz in a Beige G3

that CPU made for being on a 100mhz bus so that should give you a little head room for OCing it.

putting any flavor of free OS is a PITA to get to run on a Beige G3. just to give you a little heads up, now OS X will instal and run fine (panther and tiger require you to use xpostfacto). i played around with ubuntu on my Yikes G4 and it was down right horrid, very slow and very unstable and hard to get things working properly altogether.