[KLUG Hardware] Re: Ahh Cyrix, I remember him well... -- ViA C3 1GHz Socket-370 processor ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 14:18, Stephane I. Matis wrote:
> Umm No. The XBox uses a custom Celeron with 133Mhz bus, a Tualatin
> derivative. Not the C3. The C3 would choke on the FPU requirements. My
> EPIA C800 takes K6 optimisations, but not more.

Gaming systems don't need 64-bit FPU accuracy, just lossy 32-bit
matrix/SIMD performance.  AMD 3DNow! works fine in that regard.

BTW, I didn't mean it was the ViA C3 per-se (bad BS, bad!), but I
thought it was a low-power National Semiconductor Cyrix variant. 
National has a patent cross-license agreement with Intel.

If you have some info on this, please let me know.  I was told it was a
National x86 part.

-- Bryan

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