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Re: AMD Quits Benchmark Group Implying Intel Bias

Posted on 2011-06-24, 14:37

in Milliways

There's nothing wrong in quoting as long as the quote refers to the original and is unaltered. He didn't mark it as quotation and as such it reads like it's his wording. As has been stated this should be avoided so try to respect this, and as a bonus hint: there's even an edit button. Oh I see what …

Re: Cyrix C3 and 486/AMD K-6 builds in progress

Posted on 2011-06-24, 19:17

by ratfink

in Marvin \ System Specs

I saw on mini-itx.com that wcpuid could vary the c3 multiplier on an epia board, from 3x to 13x: http://www.mini-itx.com/hardware/overclocking/ Needs windows but I wondered if it also depended on the motherboard.

Re: Cyrix C3 and 486/AMD K-6 builds in progress

Posted on 2011-06-24, 20:08

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ System Specs

I enjoy reading about underclocking and the C3's here. Could you maybe add a little more specification codes of the CPU's you talk about. And when talking about cache is it the L1 or the L2? The thing is, I don't know. Info on these chips is sketchy and theres little written about C3 on forums. All …

Re: AMD Quits Benchmark Group Implying Intel Bias

Posted on 2011-06-24, 22:59

by DonutKing

in Milliways

Okay whatever. You can split hairs all you like but my point was that Intel has been swapping CPU sockets unnecessarily since long before LGA775 came along. How was Socket A not sockethopping? Socket A had a pretty good run, it was around while Intel went from 370 to 423 to 478 to LGA775.

Re: AMD K5-200

Posted on 2011-06-25, 13:15

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I believe your assumption would be correct. Afaik it was only released in some country in east Asia. I'm not sure I even have a any K5's kicking around somewhere here though.

Re: Cyrix C3 and 486/AMD K-6 builds in progress

Posted on 2011-06-25, 15:46

by gerwin

in Marvin \ System Specs

Darn.. Like you said. I tried to distinguish the different C3 types (Samuel,Samuel2,Ezra,Nehemiah) But CPU world is incomplete, and on wikipedia there are 2 lists, but they differ from oneanother. That, or I am failing to understand it well. It seems the first three types (Samuel,Samuel2,Ezra) …

Re: AMD K5-200

Posted on 2011-06-25, 17:41

by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a K5 PR200. I bought it off of CPUWorld when they did a bulk order years ago. I tested this CPU in my 133 MHz Challenge thread. PR200 runs at 133 MHz.

Re: AMD K5-200

Posted on 2011-06-25, 17:57

by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They are very different CPUs. As far as I know they have nothing in common besides using the same socket and being x86. K5 is a beast at per clock performance but it can't go much beyond 133 MHz. It was a dead end.

Re: Cyrix C3 and 486/AMD K-6 builds in progress

Posted on 2011-06-25, 18:07

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ System Specs

Darn.. Like you said. I tried to distinguish the different C3 types (Samuel,Samuel2,Ezra,Nehemiah) But CPU world is incomplete, and on wikipedia there are 2 lists, but they differ from oneanother. That, or I am failing to understand it well. It seems the first three types (Samuel,Samuel2,Ezra) …

Re: AMD K5-200

Posted on 2011-06-25, 18:11

by sliderider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They are very different CPUs. As far as I know they have nothing in common besides using the same socket and being x86. K5 is a beast at per clock performance but it can't go much beyond 133 MHz. It was a dead end. But what I'm saying is why didn't they use just the FPU design from the K5? If they …

Re: Cyrix C3 and 486/AMD K-6 builds in progress

Posted on 2011-06-25, 19:35

by ratfink

in Marvin \ System Specs

Tetrium wrote: My question to whoever reads this: Does anyone else here have a C3 here which has bridges? If so, could you please list your part and the corresponding bridges here so we can improve the amount of data we can work with? Here's some pics of my C3, which shows as a VIA C3 900A on the …

Re: AMD K5-200

Posted on 2011-06-26, 02:46

by sgt76

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Or... you can create a real shitty one like Netburst, and hope it'll sclae to 10ghz!!!

Re: AMD K5-200

Posted on 2011-06-26, 03:07

by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Actually if you think about it P4 was more competitive against A64 than Phenom II is right now against i3-i7. 😉 And also modern quad / hexa cores are about as hot as Prescott but we have much better heatsinks now and the Cool'n'Quiet/Speedstep stuff really reigns in the off peak power.

Re: AMD K5-200

Posted on 2011-06-26, 06:59

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Edit: Woops...wrong topic!!! :D Edit2:9am....it shows :P Anyway, I'd love to get my hands on a PR200 or at least a PR166. I actually ordered 2 such chips from cpu-world but apparently the seller decided to quit the scene, leaving people who actually paid for their chips with empty hands. Good thing …

Re: AMD K5-200

Posted on 2011-06-26, 13:15

by sgt76

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tetrium wrote: Making CPU's is not about being the fastest or making the most efficient chip, it's about making money and designing a K5-FPU + nx686 CPU wasn't the money way. Hit the nail on the head...

Re: AMD K5-200

Posted on 2011-06-26, 13:41

by sliderider

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Making CPU's is not about being the fastest or making the most efficient chip, it's about making money and designing a K5-FPU + nx686 CPU wasn't the money way. Hit the nail on the head... Oh, and what about all the sales they lost to Intel because their floating point performance sucked? Wouldn't …

Re: Rocking AMD 386 DX 40Mhz 256kb system build

Posted on 2011-06-26, 14:16

by retro games 100

in Marvin \ System Specs

Did you get the Siig IO controller working with the CD-ROM drive?

Re: AMD K5-200

Posted on 2011-06-26, 15:09

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Making CPU's is not about being the fastest or making the most efficient chip, it's about making money and designing a K5-FPU + nx686 CPU wasn't the money way. Hit the nail on the head... Oh, and what about all the sales they lost to Intel because their floating point performance sucked? Wouldn't …

Re: AMD K5-200

Posted on 2011-06-26, 18:40

by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Another aspect to those days was that everyone underestimated the value of the FPU. You see, before 3D games, the FPU was barely used outside of scientific and engineering apps. Then in ~95, the 3D game revolution started. And since CPUs spend years in design, there was no way to react to this …

Re: AMD K5-200

Posted on 2011-06-26, 19:03

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Another aspect to those days was that everyone underestimated the value of the FPU. You see, before 3D games, the FPU was barely used outside of scientific and engineering apps. Then in ~95, the 3D game revolution started. And since CPUs spend years in design, there was no way to react to this …

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