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Technology Stocks : CYRIX / NSM -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kyle who wrote (28756)	8/7/1998 7:00:00 PM
From: Investor A	Respond to of 33344

Kyle, I don't think that there is any importance to update your BIOS if you are not comfortable to do it by yourself since there will be no performance difference to do that. If you decide to update it, you could get the BIOS at: pcchips.com To use Cyrix MII-300 (66x3.5) on M573, you could try the following assortments: 75x3 @2.7V (or better @2.5V) 66x3.5 @2.7V 83x3 @2.9V (or @2.8V or 2.7V if possible) Ever since the first recall on M2, Cyrix has been very conservative to rate their chip. Let me know how it works out for you. Fuchi ... who loves Cyrix's innovations Please support the PC industry & protect consumer interest techstocks.com users.aol.com

To: Kyle who wrote (28756)	8/7/1998 7:17:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Kyle, You don't need bios support past the ability of the bios to detect that it is a Cyrix Amd or Pentium CPU.. Speed detection is only a convenience. If it doesn't recognize the chip it will probably just say "6x86mx 225Mhz" Steve

To: Kyle who wrote (28756)	8/7/1998 7:55:00 PM
From: Peter Tong	Respond to of 33344

I don't know about the M537. I do know that my former Mtech r542 would not run the m2-300 at 233mhz. I ended up replacing it with a Soyo SY-EH5m. If you do go with another motherboard - go with the Soyo. Very good performance with the M2. Currently running mine at 3.5x75 with complete stability at 3.0v. Looking forward to the .25 Portland parts so I can clock these chips to 3x100, 2.5x112. 2.5x100 was better than 3.5x75 in almost every way but unfortunately not quite stable. Anyone know of a reason why Cyrix hasn't released a 2.5x100 part? Now that Amd is having some success with the 100mhz rated parts they might as well ride on AMD's coattails.... regards, Peter Tong