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Article #33Re: Cyrix 6x86 overheats!!
From: Wee-Keong LIM
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 00:00
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In article <01bb9ae1$292f37a0$a60ac282@default> "William Wong" <santana@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> writes:
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>Second, there are problems with misleading of information of configuration
>settings to the 6x86 CPUs. Especially the Intel introduced this so called
>"Downgrade" P-rating standards. Which means that the 6x86 P166+ is not
>6x86-166Mhz. Is much lower performance, but with the speed of Pentium 166.
Intel did *not* invent this. AMD, Cyrix and others invented it because
their clock speed/performance curve is different to the Pentium's. It
actually has _lower_ clock speed, _higher_ performance. It was their
way of trying to remove confusion as to which CPU works fastest.
Keong
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