Looks like it's VIA chipsets (VP2, VP3) that support linear burst, also, Sis 5571B (not sure if other Sis) - pretty sure the regular 6x86 offers it as well the later ones.

Back in the day FIC PA-2007 was a screamer with the 6x86... VP2 with linear burst.

FIC PA-2013 has a jumper for linear burst mode for Cyrix 6x86/MX/MII CPUs. Most VIA MVP3-based motherboards should work with Linear Burst. Intel boards will not.

All Cyrix 5x86/6x86/MX/MII chips have Linear Burst as an option. On MediaGX chips, that register is reserved, so I'm not sure if Linear Burst was omitted.

From memory, I think you want to enable WRITE ALLOCATE, NOLOCK, and LINBRST. Maybe some fast frame buffer option, or write gathering? I no longer recall.

My brother-in-law used to work for Cyrix back in the mid-90s, and I asked if I could buy a CPU/motherboard combo directly from the company. I'm not sure if it came from the company store or not, but I'm almost positive that he brought back an M-Tech Mustang R534 motherboard with the 6x86 MX installed. Sadly, I don't recall where the motherboard and CPU are now, but I still have the box and heatsink/fan combo.

If you want the motherboard that Cyrix endorsed for the 6x86 MX, you should seek out the M-Tech R534.

Check this out, worth reading if you are building something with the 6x86.

http://gwyn.tux.org/~balsa/linux/cyrix/p8.html

I like the fan sticker.

I have a Cyrix 6x86MX processor banner in my exercise room which looks like your box.

haha!, I had a screensaver that was mmx optimized which displayed something like your banner animated, wondering if somebody still have it.
I think now, I would like to remove the dust from my EP-MVP3 and choose some 6x86 from my collection, tons of options to choose from
Humm, time to start a new thread may be next week.

boxpressed wrote:

If you want the motherboard that Cyrix endorsed for the 6x86 MX, you should seek out the M-Tech R534.

Regarding the 6x86MX I'd like to quote Red Hill:
http://www.redhill.net.au/b/b-98.html#va502

If you ran a 6x86MX-200, the VA-502 was simply the best board you could buy at any price. Those two made a magic combination. On the test bench with an MX-200, the 502 out-performed boards costing nearly twice as much, and on a VA-502 the 6x86MX-200 comfortably beat not just its direct competitors, the Pentium MMX and K6 Classic 200s, but the 233 MMX as well.

boxpressed wrote:

If you want the motherboard that Cyrix endorsed for the 6x86 MX, you should seek out the M-Tech R534.

Was the R534 endorsed beyond all other boards, or just one of many that they recommended?

Back in the days of the original 6x86, I remember looking on Cyrix's web site for recommended motherboards. At least for that generation they had many boards listed. We ended up getting an R533 (430VX based) because it was on that list and locally available. It was a totally reliable board, but I have no idea how it's performance compared to other chipsets.

Oh, I probably should have phrased my comment differently. As you said, Cyrix recommended more than one motherboard for the 6x86. So the R534 may have been one board among many. All I know is that the R534 is the one that my brother-in-law got from the Cyrix corporate headquarters. I wish I could find that board--it seems to have quite an excellent reputation.

By the way, it is Rev. G of the R534.

Thanks for the help with the settings feipoa.
It seems the SiS board is a fair bit quicker than the ALi, might well be the 1MB cache, but I would have thought Rage Pro 8 MB would beat SiS 6326 4MB, both onbaord in phils VGA test, but there we are.

vmunix wrote:

haha!, I had a screensaver that was mmx optimized which displayed something like your banner animated, wondering if somebody still have it.
I think now, I would like to remove the dust from my EP-MVP3 and choose some 6x86 from my collection, tons of options to choose from
Humm, time to start a new thread may be next week.

would love a copy of that screensaver, anyone have a lead?

I found a complete system on ebay with the R534 motherboard I believe (at least that is the model number on the PCB of the motherboard) http://www.ebay.com/itm/DTK-Computer-FEAT-35- … ykAAOxy3HJTJHQJ

ODwilly wrote:

I found a complete system on ebay with the R534 motherboard I believe (at least that is the model number on the PCB of the motherboard) http://www.ebay.com/itm/DTK-Computer-FEAT-35- … ykAAOxy3HJTJHQJ

The price seems reasonable 😀

Here in Europe we normally have to pay a little more for (almost) complete socket 7 systems, $30+ is normally what we have to pay for a nice AT case from Ebay inside the EU.

I have the Cyrix 6x86MX screensaver, however I am not confident in my legal ability to post it.

Cyrix grants you the right to copy the Software onto a single computer. You will not use, copy, modify, sell or transfer any part of the Software except as provided in this Agreement. You may use the Software only on Cyrix processor-based computer systems.

I am sure you can find it online somewhere; I did.

There is also an IBM 6x86MX and IBM 6x86 screensaver.

The Cyrix 6x86MX screensaver is incredibly cheezy. It is an animated version of the poster image I posted here, neon lights and all.