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From: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@devrycols.edu>
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To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: ! A question around supported configuration
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> James A. Mutter wrote:
> 
> > 1.  Yes.  However I would stay as far away from a Cyrix processor as
> > humanly possible if I were you.  
> 
> What's wrong with them? (Something more helpful than ``they're crap''
> would be nice too :-)
> 

They floating point performance is substandard. 
They run *hot*, very,very *hot*.
They, in my personal experience, have a high failure rate.

Most importantly, for an extra 10-15 dollars, you can have a genuine
Intel, or an AMD.

Personally, you couldn't *pay* me to run a Cyrix processor in any of my
machines.




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