🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 31 Mar 1997 21:04:02 GMT, gsutter@pobox.com (Gregory Sutter)
wrote:

>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.
>
>>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.

www.cyrix.com has a patch to make software think it's a pentium...

The only software that I ever found that wont install without having a
pentium is Sonic the Hedgehog.  Lookie-lookie, Intel owns Sonic. :)

With the money you save by buying cyrix vs pentium, you can almost buy
two systems for the price of one.

-Scott

>
>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
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