I noticed it in the Cyrix Appreciation thread, I hope you can get it to work!

feipoa wrote:

This arrived in the mail yesterday. It received zero interest in the Cyrix appreciation thread, so I figured I'd post it here. It is [almost] a Cyrix Media GXm CPU, aka Geode from National Semiconductor. According to Wiki, it is nearly identical to the original Cyrix Media GXm CPUs, but with a die shrink, that is, .18 um instead of .35 um. I have the 266 MHz Media GXm CPU in a system now, but would like to maximise the speed to 300 MHz. I am hoping that this GX1 will work in the GXm motherboard. Wiki mentions that the GX1 uses the CS5530A companion chipset, while the GXm uses the CS5530 chipset. I am hoping that the "A" suffix is only related to which onboard graphics and sound is used on the CPU. On my system I have the integrated sound and graphics disabled, so hopefully this 300 MHz GX1 chip will work. If it works, it will be the fastest Cyrix 5x86-based CPU in my collection.

The Geode 300/333 MHz GX1 CPU is not easily found in the PGA form factor, so I feel lucky to have got this little gem for $20 shipped. Luckily, my motherboard also supports these lower voltages.

The purple lettering is also pretty unique.

An awesome person donated these goodies!

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

An awesome person donated these goodies!

Someone thinning their collection?

feipoa wrote:

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

An awesome person donated these goodies!

Someone thinning their collection?

He told me he is doing a cleanout of parts.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

feipoa wrote:

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

An awesome person donated these goodies!

Someone thinning their collection?

He told me he is doing a cleanout of parts.

That's one hell of a cleanout... Some look for years that BH6 and never found one...
How to "clean" such a thing? That's a crime...😀) Congrats man!!

Now he has to test everything to see what actually works 😉

kixs wrote:

Now he has to test everything to see what actually works 😉

Looking forward to the new vids 😁

Btw, what's so special about the BH6 board? I thought BX boards weren't really that special (but they're still very solid boards most of the time).

Abit BH6 had a sort of cult following at the time as it was one of the first to implement extensive overclocking options in the BIOS. I was part of that cult too. 😁

Those boxed athlon64 cpus.... /drool

Tetrium wrote:

Btw, what's so special about the BH6 board? I thought BX boards weren't really that special (but they're still very solid boards most of the time).

Well back in the days there was a legendary CPU codename "Celeron 300A" that could achieve 450Mhz easily with a little bit of voltage boost(usually 0.05V increase) and that way you could almost get the performance of his much more expensive brother P2 450Mhz..well there is where the BH6 shines. Most of the boards at that time(including Asus P2B) simply could not do this...magic trick. 😀

Lukeno94 wrote:

Frasco, I think a V2 or V3 should handle most Glide games, but there will probably be a handful that only run on an original Voodoo.

That's why I said I have a Diamond Monster 3D to cover me.

Lukeno94 wrote:

I can't see anything needing a Voodoo 5 or Voodoo 4 to run though.

We are just being too academical, just perfecting Glide games. So of course we need Voodoo 5 for AA
(as if one self could play all those Glide Games out there in all glory) 🤣 .

overseer wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

Btw, what's so special about the BH6 board? I thought BX boards weren't really that special (but they're still very solid boards most of the time).

Well back in the days there was a legendary CPU codename "Celeron 300A" that could achieve 450Mhz easily with a little bit of voltage boost(usually 0.5V increase) and that way you could almost get the performance of his much more expensive brother P2 450Mhz..well there is where the BH6 shines. Most of the boards at that time simply could not do this...magic trick. 😀

0.5V extra would have killed the CPU... you mean 0.05V. Many did not even need that. I have a C300A on BH6 that does 462MHz at stock voltage.

stamasd wrote:

overseer wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

Btw, what's so special about the BH6 board? I thought BX boards weren't really that special (but they're still very solid boards most of the time).

Well back in the days there was a legendary CPU codename "Celeron 300A" that could achieve 450Mhz easily with a little bit of voltage boost(usually 0.5V increase) and that way you could almost get the performance of his much more expensive brother P2 450Mhz..well there is where the BH6 shines. Most of the boards at that time simply could not do this...magic trick. 😀

0.5V extra would have killed the CPU... you mean 0.05V. Many did not even need that. I have a C300A on BH6 that does 462MHz at stock voltage.

Yeah i meant 0.05V... You got lucky with that CPU, but most of them does not work that high with default voltage, at least i didn't had one like that...

overseer wrote:

Yeah i meant 0.05V... You got lucky with that CPU, but most of them does not work that high with default voltage, at least i didn't had one like that...

Not necessarily... this is the second one I had that will overclock at stock voltage. But even the 0.05V extra doesn't really matter. Some of them were reputed to overclock better than others (e.g. the Costa Rica ones were better than the Malay IIRC)

I was so happy knowing my Celeron300A was legendary.
Hello Abit BH6, bye-bye M748MR

Abit BH6 goes for 110$ or 333$ 😵

Thanks, what is Pentium III 500 Mhz for !?

overseer wrote:

Well back in the days there was a legendary CPU codename "Celeron 300A" that could achieve 450Mhz easily with a little bit of voltage boost(usually 0.05V increase) and that way you could almost get the performance of his much more expensive brother P2 450Mhz..well there is where the BH6 shines. Most of the boards at that time(including Asus P2B) simply could not do this...magic trick. 😀

A Celery 300A at 450 mhz would sometimes outperform a P II 450 (test depending) due to it's superior on die cache.

Intel's market segmentation was pretty weird around that time.

Slot A Intel's nightmare 😀

Now the only thing I need is for the 5v heavy PSU to arrive to drive this 50Watt beast.

stamasd wrote:

overseer wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

Btw, what's so special about the BH6 board? I thought BX boards weren't really that special (but they're still very solid boards most of the time).

Well back in the days there was a legendary CPU codename "Celeron 300A" that could achieve 450Mhz easily with a little bit of voltage boost(usually 0.5V increase) and that way you could almost get the performance of his much more expensive brother P2 450Mhz..well there is where the BH6 shines. Most of the boards at that time simply could not do this...magic trick. 😀

0.5V extra would have killed the CPU... you mean 0.05V. Many did not even need that. I have a C300A on BH6 that does 462MHz at stock voltage.

I have a 333MHz PII that does 500MHz stable on my BE6-II @2.05v 😀

stamasd wrote:

Abit BH6 had a sort of cult following at the time as it was one of the first to implement extensive overclocking options in the BIOS. I was part of that cult too. 😁

overseer wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

Btw, what's so special about the BH6 board? I thought BX boards weren't really that special (but they're still very solid boards most of the time).

Well back in the days there was a legendary CPU codename "Celeron 300A" that could achieve 450Mhz easily with a little bit of voltage boost(usually 0.05V increase) and that way you could almost get the performance of his much more expensive brother P2 450Mhz..well there is where the BH6 shines. Most of the boards at that time(including Asus P2B) simply could not do this...magic trick. 😀

Ah, that makes perfect sense.

Wow...practically all these slot 1 boards go for a lot on ebay these days? 😲
I should start considering getting the whole lot insured if things continue on like this 😵

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

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Oh man.... You got an A7V266-E.
That is some sweet board: AGP-Pro, DDR and hardware raid BIOS.
That board is one of the better Socket-A board and stable too. Really a joy in Win98.

I have my board running with an Compaq V3-3500 and an YMF-724.
Can't remember what CPU it is. Runs Win98 titles up to around 2000 without issues.

EDIT:
Is that an ET-6000 I spot between the other parts?