Actually, it's not rubbish.
There is a register on the Pentium chipset which identifies it as a
Pentium. The Cyrix doesn't come with this register enabled BUT there is a
small TSR which enables this register and then the Cyrix identifies as a
Pentium.
A few more small points (while I'm being pedantic). The Pentium is
copyrighted by Intel. The chip is called a Pentium because they were likely
to have problems protecting the copyright of a number.
As far as third party brands. The AMD is probably the best, especially the
K6's
Cheers.
Rubbish !!
I run many games that claim to be pentium only games on a Cyrix chipset,
after all pentium is only IBM trademark for the chip not a seperate type of
chip, it would have been called a 586 but Peugot already had the trademark
on that. The important components are the ram and clockspeed. With 98% of
software you will be fine with 3rd party manufacturers chips, after all
software designers don't profit by making games that will only run on a
small percentage of the target market. There are a couple of third party
chips that are a bit dodgy but
Cyrix and AMD are both good reliable brands IMO and have had know problems
with either.
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