Mobos that Mattered Most (a MaximumPC article)

[compman25]

You guys are forgetting there was another player back then too, Cyrix and the 6x86.

 

[Gillbot]

You guys are forgetting there was another player back then too, Cyrix and the 6x86.

LOL @ U for thinking Cyrix was ever a "player". Those "PR" numbers werea joke at best. That's like calling Centaur Winchip a "player" too!

 

[compman25]

LOL @ U for thinking Cyrix was ever a "player". Those "PR" numbers werea joke at best. That's like calling Centaur Winchip a "player" too!

Yeah, and AMD used the same PR scheme with the K5's, doesn't change the fact Cyrix was a player in that era. No one said they were a great player.

 

[Homerboy]

I had a Cyrix133! I think it was a 133...

 

[Gillbot]

I had a Cyrix133! I think it was a 133...

Had? I still HAVE many of my old chips. 😱

 

[Homerboy]

Had? I still HAVE many of my old chips. 😱

I (mostly) subscribe to the sell-to-pay-for-upgrade program.

 

[Gillbot]

I (mostly) subscribe to the sell-to-pay-for-upgrade program.

As do I, but those things never had much value! :biggrin::awe:

 

[AstroGuardian]

I had the Cyrix PR233 which i think was as powerful as the P166 MMX

 

[Homerboy]

I had the Cyrix PR233 which i think was as powerful as the P166 MMX

Ah-ha! THAT is what I had!

 

[AstroGuardian]

I loved my AMD 3x86 DX40 @ 16MHz and 40MHz with turbo. I can still remember the countless days and nights playing Settlers2. I bought a god damn ISA Sound blaster 16 card for that game 🙂.

I loved that little machine.

 

[Arg Clin]

aah Cyrix, how could we forget? Pretty lousy performance, but at least they ran really hot 😵

 

[kiriakos]

I had those ABIT BH6 & BE6 , at those days we was overclock the celleron 226 to 400 MHz .. (1998 - 1999)

And the only benchmark that we had , was the "Final Reality" ..
Those was the days that 3DFX had release the amazing Voodoo 3000 vga,
and INTEL was promoting the good for nothing MMX instructions.

Nice days, full of excitement about the fresh-born 3D computing .... and lots of wasted money too .

The computer parts industry , get matured at about 2004, Pentium-4 ages.

 

[MangoX]

No ABIT NF7S v2.0 on that list? Shame. I loved that board and it was a beastly overclocker too! A buddy had the A7N8X and was riddled with memory issues, something was seemed to be common back then if my memory serves.

 

[Gillbot]

I had those ABIT BH6 & BE6 , at those days we was overclock the celleron 226 to 400 MHz .. (1998 - 1999)

And the only benchmark that we had , was the "Final Reality" ..
Those was the days that 3DFX had release the amazing Voodoo 3000 vga,
and INTEL was promoting the good for nothing MMX instructions.

Nice days, full of excitement about the fresh-born 3D computing .... and lots of wasted money too .

The computer parts industry , get matured at about 2004, Pentium-4 ages.

Oh, don't forget the MDK Perf Test! Ahh, the good old Maximum PC discs with all those testing programs on it!

 

[::2dfx::]

You guys are forgetting there was another player back then too, Cyrix and the 6x86.

The famous slogan was CyrixINSTEAD!

Cyrix owners - did you ever subscribe to the Cyrix motto that you were, in fact, different? 😛