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RE: Cyrix crazyness saga continues..



yeah.. and benchmarkings of FPU stuff report a 486 level or something like 
this.....


--- On Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:33:53 +0200 (IST)  Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com> 
wrote:

>
>For those who missed: yesterday I took a Cyrix P120+ and overclocked it to
>133 to make it work as a P166+. I also feed it only 2.5v, although it asks
>for 3.3v! non-FPU tests have shown me that it has the equivilant speed of
>a Pentium running at 160-175Mhz indeed!
>
>This morning I decided to turn off for a while the 19" fan I had pointing
>at the open Miditower... the Cyrix stayed as cool as 30-40 deg.! just a
>tiny bit above room temp! this is less than my P133 running at NORMAL
>speed! you just can't TOUCH the intel!
>
>Yes, Ladies and Kernelpatches, it seems Cyrix is a really cool CPU (insert
>"Cool! it runs with linux" logo here).
>
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