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Reply 40 of 58, by Gona

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I have got PCI G200 for cheap. As soon as I have finished current tests, I try to make benchmarks.

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Reply 42 of 58, by Unknown_K

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Anybody here snag this?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Evergreen-48 … U-/353073570841

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Reply 43 of 58, by darry

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Unknown_K wrote on 2020-05-21, 19:23:

My whole vintage setup did not cost that much . My pockets aren't deep enough

Reply 44 of 58, by feipoa

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Yes, someone here did. Don't ask me who. It is up to him/her to reveal him/herself. What matters to me is that a [properly] scanned manual is coming my way.

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Reply 46 of 58, by feipoa

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All 133 MHz parts don't do branch prediction in Windows reliably; DOS is OK though. To get a 133 MHz part with branch prediction work in Windows, you will need to find an S1R3 100 MHz or 120 MHz part which can be overclocked to 133 MHz on a motherboard that supports the 66 MHz FSB.

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Reply 47 of 58, by Socket3

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Interesting thread. I have a Lucky Star 5VP3 socket 7 board that will run at 8, 20 and 40 MHz unofficially. I discovered 8MHz accidentally when trying to get a K6-2 to run at 6x66MHz. It's stable at all these speeds, but at 8MHz multiplier selection is disabled, the board will always force 1x regardless of multiplier jumper settings. I believe the 8MHz setting is a debug feature (please correct me if I'm wrong). Don't know about 20 and 40MHz.

Reply 48 of 58, by rmay635703

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feipoa wrote on 2011-12-14, 16:57:

I really would be curious to know just how the MII-433 @ 300 MHz compares up to the Pentiums. One day I'll get around to the ultimate socket 7 comparison. My gut feeling is that it is somewhere between a P233MMX and a P266MMX, perhaps even a slow slot1 celeron.

My 2.2v Mii-433 overclocks to a real 400mhz at that speed it does move fairly well but never benched anything 3D to see.

I believe someone did compare an overclocked PR433 vrs a celery 300a and came up with a few interesting results .

If Cyrix had sold real 400mhz parts in 1998ish they might have survived

Reply 49 of 58, by feipoa

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Not sure if you are aware, but that question is almost a decade old. This question has been answered in the Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison. While I have an MII-433GP, I don't think I'd want to run extensive benchmarks at 400 MHz on it. I ran the MII-400 up to 350 MHz and extracted results for 400 MHz. The response vs. freq. was linear.

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Reply 50 of 58, by gdjacobs

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feipoa wrote on 2020-05-21, 20:46:

Yes, someone here did. Don't ask me who. It is up to him/her to reveal him/herself. What matters to me is that a [properly] scanned manual is coming my way.

More power to 'em. At least users on this forum are unlikely to try packing them full of play-dough before learning the limits of LN2 cooling.

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Reply 51 of 58, by feipoa

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The Evergreen is in good hands. This user isn't the type to do something stupid like liquid nitrogen cooling to see if 150 or 160 MHz on a Cyrix 5x86 is sustainable.

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Reply 52 of 58, by mpe

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feipoa wrote on 2020-05-23, 06:08:

The Evergreen is in good hands. This user isn't the type to do something stupid like liquid nitrogen cooling to see if 150 or 160 MHz on a Cyrix 5x86 is sustainable.

Hey. That's what I would do! 😀

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Reply 53 of 58, by feipoa

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There are some QFP IBM 5x86c chips that will suffice then. I had one doing pretty well in DOS at 150 MHz with just a heatsink/fan... until I overdid it and it stopped working. I bet some liquid nitrogen cooling, or even a reliable peltier, could have yielded Windows operation.

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Reply 56 of 58, by The Serpent Rider

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Yes, obvious fake. Marking won't go so easy from a genuine CPU and there's slight difference in ceramic color.

people will go pretty far to fake

If it's relatively popular and sought after and can be easily faked - it would be faked without a doubt.

I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.

Reply 57 of 58, by amadeus777999

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lukas12p wrote on 2021-04-12, 15:06:

Hi
So I have bought AMD X5 160 and this happened..

Nice collector's item - I have a 486DX100WB and it's also fake but does work as label'd so not much was lost. Do you have a picture before the font was "removed".