Cyrix X686

Hi does any one know any thing about this
Kind of computer.Cyrix x686
I have upgraded to a 98SE
Cleaned hard drive.From 95.
Has only 16 mb of
Ram. If I put more ram will it go faster or not?
Or should I put a new hard drive. Or shall I just forget
about trying to do more to it.. Am doing mostly
to learn how to open and replace parts
Thanks for you replies....

A Cyrix 6x86 processor is a very old processor, at least two or three
generations behind the current standard. Adding more memory will help speed
it up, if you can find memory that will work with that platform - but you
definitely have a putt-putt-cart PC and there isn't anything you can do to
get it to family sedan performance let alone racing car performance.

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Hi does any one know any thing about this
Kind of computer.Cyrix x686
I have upgraded to a 98SE
Cleaned hard drive.From 95.
Has only 16 mb of
Ram. If I put more ram will it go faster or not?
Or should I put a new hard drive. Or shall I just forget
about trying to do more to it.. Am doing mostly
to learn how to open and replace parts
Thanks for you replies....

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Hi does any one know any thing about this
Kind of computer.Cyrix x686
I have upgraded to a 98SE
Cleaned hard drive.From 95.
Has only 16 mb of
Ram. If I put more ram will it go faster or not?
Or should I put a new hard drive. Or shall I just forget
about trying to do more to it.. Am doing mostly
to learn how to open and replace parts
Thanks for you replies....

The Cyrix as far as I know it is a very fast architecture when it works
right. You have to be sure that you don't enable thermal throttling for
it in the BIOS and such because it doesn't support it.

Of course in CPU intensive tasks, it can't compare to the modern
multi-GHz computers... But as I remeber a 200 MHz Cyrix x686 with only
32 MB of memory, it booted Windows 98SE in a fraction of a minute, which
is speed that, excuse me, the last 3 GHz P4 box with 4 GB of memory and
running XP, I've been working on, could never match.

Anyway, the Cyrix family is an alternative processor to Intel's that
works on Intel boards. It earned a bad reputation when Intel started
making boards in which thermal throttling cannot be disabled (what a
coincidence, eh?), which is a feature the Cyrix processors did not
support and kept crashing.

I think a few people even made some good money on making software
patches that made software not use CPU registers, which then resulted in
the software working fine on a Cyrix on a missconfigured motherboard.
The other thing people noticed was that if you use sufficient cooling
(the hidden effect is that thermal throttling never kicks in then) makes
Cyrix processors work fine on missconfigured motherboards.

Good luck with your own and please note that even the most obstolete
computers are still rather good for home webservers (http://www.eznos.org/).

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