Cyrix MII 300 STABILITY

[c4a]

Does anyone have some stability/overheat issues with the mII 300 from cyrix.
i asked my dealer and he said that he sold 800 cpu's and none have returned.

[AlienDyne]

Hi.
I've tested over 30 MII-300. Three of them had a problem, but the most of them were not stable. Don't forget the overheating problem. If you buy a Cyrix, use a very good heat sink with a powerful fan.

My personal opinion about Cyrix??
They suck! They have a lot of problems. Probably that's why Cyrix is gone.

P.S.
I don't work for AMD or Intel!!!

[Jman]

My friends have some MII cpus and from there experiences I think that it is stable but can overheat easily. They are very slow compared to intel and AMD.
I wouldn't suggest getting cyrix. AMD is a hell of alot better and cost just a little more. Intel of course is better but the cost is to high.

[Bane]

Hey there,

Don't lete anyone fool you. Cyrix chips are *EXCELLENT* processors! *DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU WILL BE APPLYING TO IT!*

I have been custom building PC's for people for a long time now, read numerous reviews on all 4 of the major brand-name chips for Windows, and listened to a whole slew of opinions.

Based on experience, and on having sold and used dozens of Cyrix chips, as well as AMD and Intel, here's what I've found:

* Cyrix: If what you will be mainly doing with this chip is pure business applications, like Office apps, internet, email, that type of thing, and almost no gaming (at least not intense 3D gaming, and less than 10% of your total use would be for gaming), this is *THE CHIP* to go with. It has 64K unified cache and has been shown time and time again to benchmark much faster than both AMD or Intel on WinBench Business benchmarks running Win9x. Hands down, this chip is the business-man's hot tamale! *BUT*, as mentioned earlier, these run very hot... you will want to make sure to get a good large fan (preferrably not the black-colored heatsinks, they don't seem to work as good as the ice-blue or silver heatsinks), and also use a case fan to blow across the heatsink. Also, don't even think of overclocking this chip, it already is! Oh, and one more thing, both IBM and Cyrix produce this chip. If memory serves me correctly, one is rated for 75Mhz bus, the other for 66... go with the one that is rated at 75Mhz bus, your system will run a lot better.

AMD: This is the all-around "best-bang-for-your-buck" chip. Outdoes Intel on business apps, comes close to Cyrix. As for FPU (3D games), it *smokes* Cyrix, but lags behind Intel. This is the perfect chip for the average home-user. Does great gameing, but you must make sure it has a high-quality motherboard and 3D card... none of those $40 specials will work, get a good video card with about 16MB ram or more, preferrably AGP if you have that option. I would only buy a motherboard with a VIA chipset. This is the chip that I use, the K62-300(OC'd @ 333). But I am planning on buying a K63-450 soon.

Intel: This is the gamer's chip. It has *VERY* strong FPU, and it's ability to run business apps is decent... make sure you never ever ever ever buy a Celeron that doesn't have cache. I doubt you can find anymore of those to buy new, but you'll probably see them around at auction houses. Ask very clearly, "how much cache does this chip have"??? If it doesn't have at least 128KB, don't buy it, you'll hate it! The Celeron chips are cheap (compared to a P2/P3) and are great for gameing. Intel chips lag behind AMD and Cyrix in business demands, but still perform respectively, provided that you don't include Celeron's without cache into this statement. The cacheless Celeron's are the wost chip made in a long long long time! The only drawback with going the Intel route is that they are way overpriced. They're good, don't get me wrong, but unless you *NEED* the higher FPU power, you don't *NEED* an Intel. These are also the chip of choice for servers.

One side-note: AMD has just released the new K7 processor. By all the white-papers and such available, it would appear that this processor will eat Intel for lunch. If you can wait to get a new processor, wait about 3 months and see what this really does.

So, as you can see, it all depends on what you will be doing. For example, I use my computer about 60% business, and 40% gaming/entertainment. I have an AMD K62-300 w/ 128MB of PC100 RAM, a very high-quality motherboard, and a Banshee AGP 16MB video card. I couldn't be happier with how my computer performs. The only reason I'm thinking of upgradeing to a K63-450 is because I can!!!

Hope that helps a bit!




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Brandon Gresham
Murray, UT