On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 08:53:37PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > wouldnt it be slower though? Pentium 1 or 2? What about a Cyrix MII 366. > > Regards, Dean.
Well, it sounds like a pretty old machine, so it may be limited to a Pentium 1 which gives you a max clock of 233MHz. So a bit slower, but not much. Point is that Cyrix try and compete with the much better financed Intel on speed basically by using a cheaper process and pushing it to its limits, so a Cyrix at its proper clock speed is more or less like an Intel overclocked as far as you can push it. Is it really necessary to have a new processor anyway? Maybe not, but if it's been running Windoze for years, you can't really tell if it's been reliable or not! To keep the speed the same or increase it, on an MB limited to P1-type processors, I'd go for AMD. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
