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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Cyrix P166+
Date: 3 Dec 1996 02:35:49 -0000
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In article <57n3ev$93h@usenet.rpi.edu>,
dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) writes:
: I am upgrading my computer soon to a Pentium compatible machine. I was
: planning on getting the Cyrxi P166+ motherboard and CPU, and wanted to know
: if there were any problems with it; either "bugs" in the CPU, or hardware
: flakeyness.
Well, I havn't got one myself, but I recently read (in Byte) that the
first few Cyrix 166's have a problem with write-back cache under NT.
NT identifies these chips and disables the write back (I think it
switches the cache off completely rather than making it write-
through), decreasing performance (obviously) !
According to this article, it *seemed* that Cyrix didn't know why the
later revisions of the chip were fixed....
If you want to know the revision numbers from the article, send me mail.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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