Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 00:47:11 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua> Cc: jhs@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cyrix and AMD chips Message-ID: <199606210747.AAA01382@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 21 Jun 96 10:23:35 %2B0300. <199606210723.KAA26369@office.elvisti.kiev.ua>
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># Only certainty is: AMD chips are Not always plug compatible.
> I 100% agree -- not always compatible; not to mention the fact
> that early Enhanced Am486 chips were ummm... say, crap,
> and non-enhanced ones generally sucked, too -- compared to Intel.
I *strongly* disagree. What vintage chips are you speaking of? Yes,
there were some bad chips at the beginning, but that has been remedied
*long* ago. I'll even let you have the early Enhanced ones (which I
just don't know about, because I didn't pay any attention to them when
they were first released). How much better did Intel's early Enhanced
(by this you're referring to write-back cache, correct?) chips work?
When you say "non-enhanced" ones generally sucked, do you mean all the
chips before the DX4s? If so, you're just plain in outer space.
I have had a 5-volt 486DX2 80MHz (one of the first ones made -- bought
it right when they were released). It is a very solidly made chip.
It has been pushed very hard at times, and has never flinched. It's
as reliable as any computer I have used. I have experience with
*many* other people running similar AMD CPUs. To say they "generally
suck" is to be totally misinformed.
To say they aren't always plug compatible, though there is a massive
weight of evidence against it, I could be convinced to believe in
certain odd situations.
> But just now wer'e speaking about (comparatively new)
> AMD 5x133 chip. That's plain different story. _This_
> particular chip is really nice, do you agree?
Yes. Really nice. Just like my AMD 486DX2/80 when I first bought
it. :-)
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