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GigaPro 733MHz Cyrix III 733 processor/20GB/128MB/ 52x CD ROM/56K/NIC/Linux 1.3 Shell 299

Appreciate the find Jokersmoker, but Cyrix? 🙁 I think I'd rather slide down some razor blades into a pool of salt.
 
I thought Cyrix got out of the PC CPU market along time ago and was focusing more on embeded chip devices. Oh well....
 
Cyrix/Via is trying to market an embedded processor in the consumer market. A 733MHz Cyrix proc is gonna run about as
fast a 500MHz Celeron. _But_ it runs damn cool. You can almost get away with passively cooling it. Good for a machine for
a grandparent or a kid who isn't gonna play FPS games.
 
Passive cooling usually refers to just a heatsink. Most Intel CPU's are capable of that. The VIA's can run without the heatsink! Though of course officially they would rather you spring for the 25 cent heatsink for insurance 🙂
 
OT, but I thought I might try to clear up the situation with Via chips and Cyrix because of all the anti-Cyrix people around. The current Via chips are not Cyrix chips. They have even dropped the Cyrix name because of its bad reputation, the chip is now known as the C3. When Via bought Cyrix it also bought another smaller CPU company from IDT called Winchip, which made Pentium clones just like Cyrix. Shortly after the completion of the Cyrix III, the Cyrix team fell apart. The C3 is designed by the Winchip team. This chip cannot be Cyrix designed because they never went to 733mhz.
 
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