🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 31 Mar 1997 05:12:17 GMT, jc@starlinx.com (Jim Cummings) wrote:
>thomas@wkstas.section.upenn.edu (Thomas Fan) wrote:
>>Stuart Kreitman (skk@slmedia.SPAMFREE.com) wrote:
>>: Stephan Grupp

>>: > You can argue their relative merits all you want... but a Cyrix is NOT a
>>: > Pentium.

>>: If you had ever written any machine code, you'd know that
>>: the '86 family is a dreadfull kludge. Please learn to distinguish
>>: between marketing and reality. Its the least you can do during your
>>: brief stay at Penn.

>>whoah, whoah...if you re-read his response, he said, "You can argue
>>their relative merits all you want..."  Certainly not an endorsement
>>or condemnation of the chips, just mentioning that they certainly
>>are different manufacturers (for those may weight Intel more
>>heavily).  So take it easy, no need to harass us because we're in
>>school.

>I've used both the Cyrix and Pentium CPU's and they both work fine.
>The big Cyrix advantage is the price of course. But they do tend to
>run hotter and Windows 95 thinks the Cyrix 6x866 is a 486 CPU. No big
>deal unless you buy WIN95 software that requires a Pentium and won't
>install if it thinks you have a 486.

Newer (or better-written) software knows enough to check for Cyrix CPUs
as well as Intel CPUs.  They do run hotter, especially when you
overclock them.  Be sure to have several fans, especially a good CPU
fan.  You probably want to have a fan pointed at your voltage regulator
as well.

GReg