First post, by vetz
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Inspired by this thread, this one, and this last thread I decided to go a bit further with testing the infamous Cyrix 6x86 80GP, which is by many rumoured to be the slowest Socket 5/7 CPU you can get. It was also designed to be run at a low 40mhz FSB, which many motherboards did not support. There have also been rumours that Cyrix did several improvements to their core over the 6x86s lifespan. So I added a bit more CPUs to the mix, all running on the same speed and FSB (2x40mhz). I only have two boards with confirmed support for this CPU (I believe my Freetech 586F52 may do it, but not tested), so I can't test with any other atm.
Phil's VGA Benchmark, Matrox Mystique 220 & 32MB of EDO RAM. Optimized settings on both the ASUS P/I-P55SP4 and the ASUS PCI/I-P54TP4
Note: The AMD K5 (new) could not be tested on the P54TP4 since it requires a 2.5x multiplier on the motherboard to run at the internal 2x setting which the board does not support.
Conclusion:
The Cyrix 6x86 80GP was going up against the Pentium 75 in the marked. If you compare the results against the Pentium 75 on the same board and hardware in my P54TP4 thread you'll see it does it very nicely despite the 40mhz FSB. That is except for the lousy Quake performance.