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Well, this is the third part in a three part story. The second 503+
went to my mother-in-law, she's really happy with it. Her former
computer was a P 1 100 MHz, socket 5. nuf said. This is the last 503+ I
have, the reset doesnt work, and the sticker says 2900 I believe. ver
1.1, no ATX connector. Anyway, I flashed it with a newer BIOS, and then
found Cyrix M II 300 75 fsb in a box of free stuff from a donation here
in town. Never used a Cyrix before, I popped it in there, found the last
socket 7 heatsink I had, set the jumpers, no boot. Figured the 70ns 72
pin ram couldn't handle the 75 MHz fsb, popped a stick of 32 MB PC100
in, set the jumpers again, and finally got a screen . woo hoo ! Got the
manual out, and then noticed I had left the voltage at 2.1 that I used
for the previous K6 III+, and realized that was way too low. yep, top of
Cyrix says 2.9, set that and all runs well. Enabled linear burst in
BIOS, and I am off to the races. My question is, how well or how bad
does this cpu perform ? No gaming here, just plain old fashioned
computing. What would a MII 300 compare to ? P 133 ? ha ha. JK.
Cheers, John
Well, this is the third part in a three part story. The second 503+
went to my mother-in-law, she's really happy with it. Her former
computer was a P 1 100 MHz, socket 5. nuf said. This is the last 503+ I
have, the reset doesnt work, and the sticker says 2900 I believe. ver
1.1, no ATX connector. Anyway, I flashed it with a newer BIOS, and then
found Cyrix M II 300 75 fsb in a box of free stuff from a donation here
in town. Never used a Cyrix before, I popped it in there, found the last
socket 7 heatsink I had, set the jumpers, no boot. Figured the 70ns 72
pin ram couldn't handle the 75 MHz fsb, popped a stick of 32 MB PC100
in, set the jumpers again, and finally got a screen . woo hoo ! Got the
manual out, and then noticed I had left the voltage at 2.1 that I used
for the previous K6 III+, and realized that was way too low. yep, top of
Cyrix says 2.9, set that and all runs well. Enabled linear burst in
BIOS, and I am off to the races. My question is, how well or how bad
does this cpu perform ? No gaming here, just plain old fashioned
computing. What would a MII 300 compare to ? P 133 ? ha ha. JK.
Cheers, John