Via-Cyrix Heat?

good luck.


if you know you don't know, the way could be more easy.

They produce much less heat, probaly around (guessing) 1/2 the heat of the PIII at around 1/2 the performance of the PIII. VIA made them run cool by making them run slow, I think they must perform many fewer operations per cycle than the PIII, and are considered much worse than even equally clocked Celerons for performance.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Only worthwhile if your building something for a heat sensitive environment, or perhaps you would like to try building a "silent PC".

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

A cyrix CPU can run with just a heatsink and no fan. It can even run with out a heatsink but its not reconmended.
I saw a video clip of someone taking off the HSF from a Cyrix and a Celeron at the same time, a few seconds later the Celeron system locked up while the Cyrix machine ran like the energizer bunny.

But, at the same speed of a celeron its really slow for games, about half as slow. But for standard office apps and surfing you should be ok.


<i>"The FAA issued a wind sheer warning for my PC, I think I may have one to many fans in it..."</i>

yea, I know. the price is what screws it up now, if it were comparable to the processing power, it'd be ok...
and I think you're a tad optimistic about its performance... lol
I'll find one for damn near free one day and I'll grab it just for kicks, that's all I'm talking about.

<i>Better to be silent and thought an idiot than to speak and remove all doubt.</i>

the not buggy part is what worries me...
its not like I'll be using a Via chipset anyway, good ol' 440BX or 815B... just depends on what I have on hand at the time...
I like the BX, but its been cooked...
what is the terminal temp for a chipset?

<i>Better to be silent and thought an idiot than to speak and remove all doubt.</i>

So basically what u guys are all saying that for heat cyrix is good & and for speed it's a MUST!!!

Confused, that's because sarcasm is really hard to get accross when typing.

Anyhoo, I wanted these cyrix chips to run workstations, so they'll probably be ok, even though they are much slower.

the Cyrix is slow, but produces little heat.
It just doesn't have any processing power.
It is honestly comparable to a Pentium.
I wouldn't bother with a Cyrix processor for an actual computer unless its like Crashman was saying, something where it HAD to be silent, or somewhere where you cannot cool it properly.
I just want to play with one, not like I think it will be worth a crap, its just too slow.

<i>Better to be silent and thought an idiot than to speak and remove all doubt.</i>