From: Allan Ballard (aballard_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 04:09:39 EST
What is your opinion on Cyrix chips vs AMD?
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:06:32 -1000, David Ross wrote:
>The speed increase is nevertheless substantial, especially coming from a
>486-33; see http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~ross/cpu.shtml (which I keep meaning to
>take down since it is very obsolete,
>but it still seems to average around 5 hits/day so *someone* must be
>interested:-)
>
>- David R.
>
>> With one Mb L2 cache one can get p90 performance levels
>> without overclocking. Too bad the TP's can't upgrade the
>> slim 256K as found in my model 760CD.
>>
>> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 00:34:54 -0600, Shawn Lin wrote:
>>
>> >David Reid wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I read some of the posts earlier about this, and low an behold on eBay
>> >> there's a upgrade for a 360 that will convert one's 33mhz to a P133???? I
>> >> didn't think this could be done but the guy has decent feedback and
>mentions
>> >> this is a factory recond unit.
>> >>
>> >> Can such life be breathed back into one of these old thinkpads???
>> >
>> >This is NOT a P133. It is an AMD 5x86 that runs at 133MHz. An AMD 5x86
>> >is pin-for-pin compatible with a 486 chip. At 133MHz, its performance
>> >is comparable to a P75. In the "old days" when these chips were modern,
>> >a lot of people overclocked them to 160MHz and were able to get P100
>> >performance levels.
>> >
>> >Shawn
>> >
>> >
>> >
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