Is the Cyrix PR+ series of processors a good choice for playing GLQuake or Quake 2?
No. The entire Cyrix advertising department should be flogged for advertising these processors as equivalent to or better than an Intel Pentium. A Cyrix PR200+ tested running Quake 2 on a Monster 3D card came up with a miserable framerate of 13.3 fps at 512×384 resolution. Even a Pentium 120 can score better than this. This is partially due to the fact that the Cyrix has a very weak floating-point processor, but there’s other problems with them as well. You can see framerate comparisons of several processors running WinQuake, GLQuake and Quake 2 by clicking here… If you’re into word processing and other Windows stuff, they’re okay. Avoid them like the plague if you’re into serious action gaming. The nice thing is that any motherboard that has a Cyrix CPU installed should also be able to support an Intel Pentium. At the very least, drop a P-166 in there – the frame rate will be nearly double that of the Cyrix running Q2. Keep the Cyrix CPU as a paper-weight. A good source for OEM CPU’
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