Cyrix pr rating is ridiculous

[Hyper99]

A celeron 500 have pr rating of 600 and they didn't try to sell it as a 600mhz chip
This cyrix marketing stratagie is cheating the consumer, and we only come back and stab them in the back for lying to us.
a K6-2 550 have pr rating of 550
so it is more poor then even a celeron at 466 performing like K6-2 566
funny how they went to MII adding only simple
mmx instruction but no 3dnow etc...
Poor poor cyrix, pathetic.
These cpu are most unreliable, is more likely to crash on you as it is unable to handle even most
simple task
example, mp3 files
I say these because they are Generic and yet
as crappy as it is an ugly cpu
Hehehehe
Not trying to be mean, but it just deserves what it get for being so poorly design as a poor man's
cpu or yet, a cpu that nobody wants even If I am really poor I don't think I be happy with it.

 

[Hyper99]

Up please

 

[Assimilator1]

Glad your well aware of how sh*t Cyrix are ,join the club

Now lets rest this subject

 

[T2T III]

I've had good luck with the Cyrix CPUs that I've owned in the past. I didn't notice any more crashes than with an Intel chip. The key to running a Cyrix CPU properly was to ensure that you had an approved motherboard.

Also, the Cyrix CPUs which are now owned by VIA, are getting away from the 'fluffed' PR rating. The PR rating will be the same as the MHz of the chip.

 

[RicePudding]

But have you seen the benchmarks for the newest cyrixs'... The 667 doesnt even compare with k6-2 450, and thats not a real contender itself... im not dissing the old cyrix maybe it was good... i never had one ... but they are way behind everybody now... like some reviewers say: Via should continue to make fine chipsets and forget about the Cyrix...

 

[BurntKooshie]

stop trolling! You don't know what you are talking about! I have told you time and time again, several times in fact, POLITELY that you don't know what you are talking about. Go away!

WTF is your problem? We've discussed how stupid Cyrix's PR rating is. Enough already!

 

[Assimilator1]

wje

While I agree with your 1st point ,your 2nd point is currently wrong ,thier Joshua chip (S370) still uses that decietful PR rating

 

[BurntKooshie]

Assimilator YOU are wrong They canned the Joshua core. they gave the Samuel the "cyrix III" name instead So, yes, VIA is being decietful...multiple times, in multiple ways, on the SAME "chip"

 

[Assimilator1]

BK

Doh! ,server me right for posting whilst drunk I suppose .
I know better now

BTW he does seem to have a personal grudge against Cyrix doesn't he? ,I think he got his fingers burnt if I remember rightly.
What happened to Joshua cpu then?

 

[Aboroth]

A PR133 that my friend had got divide by zero errors in all of the games he wanted to play, especially Fallout. That is a great game by the way.

 

[Deeko]

I had a Cyrix 486 40 a few years back....don't know how it compared to other 486's, just know that it was faster than my 386 16

 

[Hyper99]

These cpu are so obsolete I'm sure if you had it you must bought
because it cheap but you were tricked into buying with their PR 400
no it aint 400mhz!!!
it more like 285mhz
This really pisses me off to no end it drives me
to the point of throwing it away in the trash can.

UP PLEASE ^^^

 

[Hyper99]

I can tolerate poor performance
but if it crashes while running intensive applications
then I have no choice but to take it and throw it away in the trashcan...
Today I went out and bought another K6-2 500 just to replace
it... Sadly I kept spending more money everyday replacing all
my Cyrix Cpu that I bought in the past, the speed is acceptable
but it has too many bugs in the cpu.
So again I ain't posting this for nothing, just to let all
know whats draining my wallet.

 

[BurntKooshie]

I bought it because my mobo doesn't support higher. I bought it because it was cheap. I bought it 2 YEARS AGO. Wasn't it just YOU who last week was saying how great it was that you saved yourself 80 bucks? WTF are you doing? why are you bumping the thread? What do you want out of it? To let others know that currently, Cyrix technology is OUT OF DATE? Well, suprise suprise, most of us have known that for a LONG time. I knew it wasn't top of the line AT ALL when i bought it.

The only "bugs" that affect users was at one point, there was an incompatability with some sound blaster cards, and that was because of the mediagx, and Creative wasn't impressed with Cyrix. So they had it not install properly on Cyrix CPU's. It worked fine if you installed it with a different chip, the put the Cyrix CPU in.

It seems that you are the only person who has been seriously jipped because of your ineptitude. I will never post a response to you again, as trolls really bother me, and have become a very annoying troll. I was nice to you before. I even tried to defend you. But god, you just DON'T give up with false statements, bitter resentment toward a piece of silicon and design team who was destroyed because of politics.

Goodbye, and I hope you learn how to be computer savvy one day.

 

[mechBgon]

Hyper99, I had a Cyrix PR166 back in 1996(?), it was my first PC ever.

It was slow, it had poor FPU power, but it was all I could afford at the time. I later upgraded to an Intel P166, and down the slippery slope I went, to the point of currently having two dual-processer computers howling away under my desk 24/7 . Nevertheless, Cyrixes have their place... in eMachines! My dad wanted a cheap computer to run Microsoft Works in order to keep a budget spreadsheet, and it could be an 866MHz Xeon in there and he'd never know the difference. So don't get too carried away, there are good uses for them!

Hey, I see you have a K6-2 now, you know what they're good at? Gamma Flux! That's one of the projects that Team Anandtech is competing in, there is a chance to win $100 every week, I hear... why not team up with us? Personally I am a RC5 nut but if you post in the Distributed Computing Forum you can ask about the project and the GF heavies will answer your questions. C'mon, use those vacant CPU cycles for something good!

 

[Hyper99]

Sniff sniff.
You sounded like you love cyrix or something
>>and yet do not rCyrix technology is OUT OF DATE? Well, suprise suprise, most of us have known that for a LONG time. I knew it wasn't top of the line AT ALL when i bought it.>>
Funny then why are you so offended?!?
I dont understand you one bit, you have two different mind
going into different direction.
Dude it has given me nothing but trouble, some of their cpu work ok
and some with diffferent pr rating just get worst and worst.

They didn't lose because of marketing stratagies, because of low quality as well.
>>post a response to you again, as trolls really bother me, and have become a very annoying troll>>
Yes same to you, you ain't a very nice troll either hehe
who the hell get this ideas from calling people troll?!?!?!
The truth I had to constantly change the jumper on this damn freaking
cpu to get it to work right!!!
now did I have to do that with k6-2?
NO!
You had no ideas what you are talking about most of the time,
I for one couldn't get what you are saying so I was just playing along

LOLOL Sheesh, you seem quite angry!!!From out of the blue...
I have no idea where you coming from my friend.

Soon I will pull all my cyrix cpu and throw them away
A lesson my friend that I have learned the hardway
and at the sametime you are angry at me for doing this?!?
Man what your problem.

 

[Hyper99]

In short these cpu is ancient, is old technology that never got better sorry you must be living in the past if you still using it...
I don't, I like to be up to date.
How I rate these cpu...
Celeron- High Quality
K6-2 - Standard
Cyrix - Generic, substandard.
>>stop trolling! You don't know what you are talking about! I have told you time and time again, several times in fact, POLITELY that you don't know what you are talking about. Go away!
>>
What's your problem dude?
Hit a nerve didn't I?
Man you need to have cow sheesh, cool down or something
I had worst time with the cpu giving me trouble and you here
are just making it more difficult!
Must I keep this to myself and be enraged and started breaking thing into pieces?
Like I said, you need to be in a more calmer mood, you seem to
be in bad mood today sorry I am just not having a very good day due to this cpu.

>>Assimilator YOU are wrong They canned the Joshua core. they gave the Samuel the "cyrix III" name instead So, yes, VIA is being decietful...multiple times, in multiple ways, on the SAME "chip"

I think everyone knows that by now...
Unfortunately some of us thick skullheaded have a mind of their
own... They will never come back not so long as their bad reputation with MII chip sorry aint trust them no where.
So long Cyrix...

 

[ragiepew]

Hyper:
> How I rate these cpu...
> Celeron- High Quality
> K6-2 - Standard
> Cyrix - Generic, substandard.

hrmm thats not quite right... celeron = high quality? And also when you compare celeron vs k6x you only seem to be comparing FP when tere are other factors that make up a cpu. In terms of INT the k6x line can hold its own on a clock for clock basis. I agree that the cyrix cpu's arent the best performers but its no reason to bash them, while ive never owned one, i am sure that they fulfill the purpose for a lot of people who have them... Remember that not everyone needs a overclocked p3 @ 800+.