[svlug] Ain't SV great!

J C Lawrence claw at under.engr.sgi.com
Tue Nov 24 10:00:38 PST 1998


On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 23:01:34 -0800 (PST) 
George Bonser<grep at shorelink.com> wrote:

> I bought a Cyrix 6x86MX-200 a few weeks ago from Fry's for about
> $60.  Needing some CPU's to replace the WinChip disasater last
> week, I went to Fry's looking for more of them. Well, they no
> longer carry 200MHz Cyrix chips ... they now carry 266MHz chips at
> the same price! So I buy the CPU's, flash the BIOS woth the latest
> rev and bingo! I am in business at a paint-peeling 266MHz!

I'm looking at building a two-way Celeron using 300A's:

  http://www.cpu-central.com/dualceleron/index-dc.html

Its a tough price to beat, and given the box that a chap here at SGI
has built, the performance is pretty damnd good.

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