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11-16-2004, 02:29 AM
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What ever happened to Cyrix
Does anyone know what happened to Cyrix, the last processer I have seen by them was my friends MII 300, Are they still around or did they get taken over?
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11-16-2004, 03:55 AM
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Re: What ever happened to Cyrix
They are no longer made and they were crap.
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11-16-2004, 05:07 AM
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Re: What ever happened to Cyrix
Well Kooldrew is very wrong about that.
VIA bought them out and has been selling them under their own name for a couple of years now.
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11-16-2004, 08:55 AM
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Re: What ever happened to Cyrix
Also, during the days of the 486 systems (for those old farts like me who remember those days), Cyrix came out with a very strong competitor to the Intel chips. They were consistently performing better as a general rule and cost a good deal less to boot. They dropped out of the picture when Intel came out with their Pentium line of processors until VIA bought them out.
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11-16-2004, 11:46 AM
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Re: What ever happened to Cyrix
Hmmm, never even heard of 'em. Are they anything worth looking up now?
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11-16-2004, 12:05 PM
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Re: What ever happened to Cyrix
They're mainly used in SFF audio/visual boxes for lounge rooms as they're very quiet due to their very low heat output (they only require passive cooling but then again they can't be compared with AMD or Intel CPU's for performance).
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11-16-2004, 01:04 PM
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Re: What ever happened to Cyrix
I have a few Cyrix 486 Computers that I am giving to both My Grandmothers for word prosessing they are very good in compairison to the intel 486 chips but anything that I have seen higher than that I have found to be crap. So I was just wondering.
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11-18-2004, 11:25 AM
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Re: What ever happened to Cyrix
Yep. Bought out by Via. On another note, Via's nanoITX motherboards will be very nice. 12cmx12cm. You could fit one in your 5 1/2 inch drivebay if you made a case for it.
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11-18-2004, 11:30 AM
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Re: What ever happened to Cyrix
But what kind of components would a board like that be able to support, diffinatly not an enthusiest board, by any means
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11-18-2004, 11:40 AM
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Re: What ever happened to Cyrix
It's not meant as an enthusiast board. It's meant for small kiosk computers or car computers. It supports minipci and pcmcia. It uses laptop ddr sodimm ram.
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