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Reply 560 of 561, by rmay635703

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elmatero wrote on Yesterday, 05:29:

There was also ultra rare 83x2 PR-233 produced by IBM .

https://www.cpushack.com/CyrixID.html

If we want to include early/very late/rare it’s important to note that many Cyrix chips with a specific physical speed started out one speed rating then moved up (or down) to another later. (See incomplete chart)
There is Some evidence that Cyrix overseas did some tall tales selling things with different markings compared to domestic
[as 95x2.5 (black top) was noted some places as existing as pr333] which as far as I know never existed in NA.

Good examples of the same chip being marketed as different speeds

PR266/PR300

PR333/PR350 ~366(at least it had a different FSB)

The historical PR400 had a different clock speed but I don’t think it was actually released when it was mentioned historically (it showed up early in the computer shopper but nobody had inventory )

Pr350’s of any variety are rather rare and worth documenting

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Back when I was on an old bravenet forum during the last 3 months National was in the Cyrix business insides (folks that bought a lot of Cyrix chips for pc business) were claiming they were selling all sorts of strange things, different colors, different labeling /typesets, wierd voltages and wierd speeds.

Now 26 years later I haven’t seen photo evidence of most of these, just verbal mentions here and there.

Makes me disappointed nobody from vcfed interviewed the Cyrix folk before they passed

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Reply 561 of 561, by mwdmeyer

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Yeah I have an IBM 6x86MX PR233 3x66MHz FSB that matches the MHz of the Cyrix MII PR266 - 200MHz

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