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Cyrix III Benchmarked

Posted by emmett on from the but-it-ain't-that-great dept.

electricmonk writes: "Tom's Hardware has just posted their review of the Cyrix III. They benchmarked it against the older Cyrix designs, and a Celeron, and the Celeron beat the crap out of all of them. They aren't meant for desktops, however, so it really isn't a valid comparison. But it is very overclockable, and runs so cool that it can work without a fan. Quake III on an Internet appliance, anyone?"

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  1. The perfect (shudder)companions by jayhawk88 · · Score: 4

    Cyrix 3's? Now I guess we know what the new Packard Bell's will be built around. Add in a Quantum Bigfoot hard drive, and I think you could officially refer to them as Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal...

  2. Slashdot: Regurgitating Author Opinion by Chiasmus_ · · Score: 5

    The article here states explicitly that the Celeron pretty much "smoked" the Cyrix--and, probably not coincidentally, so does the page the benchmarks are posted on. Looking at the actual benchmarks, on the other hand, doesn't exactly tell the same story.

    In fact, while the Celeron humiliated the Cyrix in graphic-intensive trials, the Cyrix really held its own or surpassed the Celeron's performance in the majority of those operations which did not involve a lot of pixel-crunching.

    So, despite what the text of this Slashdot article says, the Cyrix may be a very useful tool, even if it won't make your frags look cooler.

    Do Slashdot authors actually look at the pages they report??

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    "Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he deems himself your master."
  3. Tom's Charts by Effugas · · Score: 5

    Those are the most disgusting charts I've ever seen:

    Tom can say what he will about RDRAM, and nVidia, and 3Dfx, and whatnot. I'll be amused, but I'm not going to get pissed.

    These charts piss me off.

    Half a frame per second lost from AGP Fast Writes in one game does not a half-chart spanning differential make.

    Graphing two values against eachother is meaningless if the scale is not consistent from graph to graph, you just end up with "more" vs. "less" being visually amplified, without "perceptably equal" even being an option.

    Fifty Pixels Of Hype over .5 FPS? Are you kidding? (No, I didn't count exactly fifty pixels. So sue me.)

    Yours Truly,

    Dan Kaminsky
    DoxPara Research
    http://www.doxpara.com

  4. Get a Cyrix by fluxrad · · Score: 4

    Get a cyrix-III a Maxtor Hard drive and Win95 (OSR1). Add in 32Meg of RAM and make sure you bought the box from Packard Bell.

    Your box gets it's very own darwin award!


    FluX
    After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network

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