Uniserver and I were tossing around a theoretical question ... Do you think that socketed or soldered 68030 processors would perform better, worse or the same in bechmarking when all other factors are the same? I'm tempted to test this simply to answer the question but curious to know what anyone else might expect.

My test case would be to use an SE/30 chassis with power supply and internal SCSI drive loaded with a clean System software and benchmarking suite loaded. I could then swap socketed and soldered logic boards between the two using the same RAM modules on both.

What's you guess?