I've bought a Cyrix and 100Ah Lithium battery with a max current charge of 50A and a standard of 20A.
It does have an integrated bms as required by the Cyrix and the Cyrix is connected on my main battery that gets charged by a 90Amp alternator.
Will Cyrix charge my battery properly or will it provide too much current? Victron recommends a 120Amp fuse to the battery but as mine will never get that high should I get a smaller one?
Thoughts
I have an IBM variant with the blue heatsink, and it overclocks to 120mhz just fine with 40mhz fsb. Could it possibly run at 150mhz? And do I risk frying it if I try to?
Im pretty good at fnf but when Cyrix appeared im like y e s the last song has..... CONSTAMT NOTES! MORE AND MORE AND MORE AND MORE IT NEBER GIVES YOU A BREAK! LITERALY Aso the reson im tiping so bad is because my fingers are tired (ad i men TIRED
Hi all,
I've lurked here for quite some time and decided that I finally wanted to post and contribute. I just put together my first YouTube video on the Cyrix MediaGX, which is a compelling alternative to building a traditional 486 system. Here it is, if you're interested!
I know there are many of us who have built-or are interested in building-a 486. Unfortunately, it seems like parts are scarce these days, AT cases are few-and-far between (and pricey to boot), and 486s are ever-increasing in popularity, making the retro-computing hobby relatively inaccessible to newcomers, and turning existing members away. I've talked to a few friends in the retro PC space, and they're pretty much horrified by the prices for 486 boards now versus a few years ago. Certainly, good deals can be found here and there, but then there's the pricing for basic VLB video and I/O cards, let alone high speed models and caching I/O cards or even SCSI cards. It's growing untenable, and definitely putting off new hobbyists, and even limiting existing ones from expanding their collection. I've done some research and come across what I feel is a viable alternative: the MediaGX! It was a low-budget system at the time of its release, but it's a really interesting design as an early SoC, and it works pretty well in retrospect!
And that's where the MediaGX comes in. People malign Cyrix for their CPUs with terrible FPU performance, incompatibility with Pentium instructions, and their often-times iffy silicon quality. While these statements aren't entirely untrue, the MediaGX is an interesting SoC, and worth a second look. It's usually paired with Micro-ATX motherboards, uses a standard Award BIOS, provides ATA-33, and even uses PC-133 SDRAM. It's a compelling alternative to a 486, which uses an AT motherboard, AT PSU, usually doesn't have IDE built-in, and rarely provides PCI. The MediaGX is built on the Cyrix 5x86 core, and provides integrated sound and graphics. The audio is actually decent. It's SoundBlaster 16 compatible, and can output PC Speaker sounds via the 3.5mm line-out! The graphics? Not shabby! They're clear and provide crisp images, and both can be disabled in the BIOS should you please. With a Voodoo 1, this system is pretty much ready for early 3D games, and can run most DOS games without issue. It runs GLQuake nearly-flawless too!
Anyway, I just wanted to share my thoughts and join the community, so hello all! I hope you all enjoy
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I loved my 6x86 P150+ CPU. Cheap but powerful as long as you didn't play Quake on it.
I had much fun messing around with the Cyrix registers, optimizing it. I think I even overclocked it a little bit.
And it was my first CPU I ran Linux on, Slackware to be specific.
I miss Cyrix!!
Hi all,
I actually previously posted this in r/retrobattlestations, but wanted to share with a broader community and figured I'd post here too! I just put together my first YouTube video on the Cyrix MediaGX, which is a compelling alternative to building a traditional 486 system. Here it is, if you're interested!
I know there are many of us who have built-or are interested in building-a 486. Unfortunately, it seems like parts are scarce these days, AT cases are few-and-far between (and pricey to boot), and 486s are ever-increasing in popularity, making the retro-computing hobby relatively inaccessible to newcomers, and turning existing members away. I've talked to a few friends in the retro PC space, and they're pretty much horrified by the prices for 486 boards now versus a few years ago. Certainly, good deals can be found here and there, but then there's the pricing for basic VLB video and I/O cards, let alone high speed models and caching I/O cards or even SCSI cards. It's growing untenable, and definitely putting off new hobbyists, and even limiting existing ones from expanding their collection. I've done some research and come across what I feel is a viable alternative: the MediaGX! It was a low-budget system at the time of its release, but it's a really interesting design as an early SoC, and it works pretty well in retrospect!
And that's where the MediaGX comes in. People malign Cyrix for their CPUs with terrible FPU performance, incompatibility with Pentium instructions, and their often-times iffy silicon quality. While these statements aren't entirely untrue, the MediaGX is an interesting SoC, and worth a second look. It's usually paired with Micro-ATX motherboards, uses a standard Award BIOS, provides ATA-33, and even uses PC-133 SDRAM. It's a compelling alternative to a 486, which uses an AT motherboard, AT PSU, usually doesn't have IDE built-in, and rarely provides PCI. The MediaGX is built on the Cyrix 5x86 core, and provides integrated sound and graphics. The audio is actually decent. It's SoundBlaster 16 compatible, and can output PC Speaker sounds via the 3.5mm line-out! The graphics? Not shabby! They're clear and provide crisp images, and both can be disabled in the BIOS should you please. With a Voodoo 1, this system is pretty much ready for early 3D games, and can run most DOS games without issue. It runs GLQuake nearly-flawless too!
Anyway, I just wanted to share my thoughts and join the community, so
... keep reading on reddit ➡
