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Ah, the old VIA chips, which VIA built from the tech they bought from Cyrix. If you're interested in the history of Cyrix and some of the older x86 compatible c

Ah, the old VIA chips, which VIA built from the tech they bought from Cyrix. If you're interested in the history of Cyrix and some of the older x86 compatible chips, here's a great video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWGAdoMz1c0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWGAdoMz1c0 Also these Zhaonix's are just 32-bit right? I didn't seen anything on the site about supporting x86_64.

andyana 9y ago
No, they mention 32/64 on the specs pages.
aidenn0 9y ago
VIA's CPUs were from their purchase of Centaur Technology, not fro Cyrix, right? (IIRC there is a HNer that worked at Centuar for a while, perhaps they can expand).
- rzzzt 9y ago
  The C3 does seem to be from Centaur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_C3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_C3
pharrington 9y ago
http://en.zhaoxin.com/ZXC.aspx?seriesid=3 http://en.zhaoxin.com/ZXC.aspx?seriesid=3
krylon 9y ago
My first PC had a Cyrix CPU, a P166+, running at 133MHz. PC vendors building middle- to low-end PCs liked them, because they were cheaper than Intel, and for most stuff people did with their PCs back then, it offered acceptable performance. Unless you wanted to play Quake, that is. ;-) But the integer performance of these chips was rather impressive. The other problem was that Cyrix CPUs used more power than Intel's, so they generated more heat and therefore needed a better cooling system. PC vendors often used cheap low-end fans that were well-suited for Pentiums, but caused many, many crashes due to the system overheating. Once I replaced the fan with a bigger one, the crash-rate dropped by about 90%.
djhworld 9y ago
My parents bought a Packard Bell PC as the first family computer, back in 1999 or so, that had a Cyrix, 333mhz from what I recall.
earenndil 9y ago
On their specs page[1], there's a row in the table for the instruction set, which is "x86 and x64(64-bit)". 1: http://en.zhaoxin.com/ZXC.aspx?seriesid=3 http://en.zhaoxin.com/ZXC.aspx?seriesid=3

andyana 9y ago

No, they mention 32/64 on the specs pages.

aidenn0 9y ago

VIA's CPUs were from their purchase of Centaur Technology, not fro Cyrix, right? (IIRC there is a HNer that worked at Centuar for a while, perhaps they can expand).

rzzzt 9y ago
The C3 does seem to be from Centaur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_C3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_C3

pharrington 9y ago

http://en.zhaoxin.com/ZXC.aspx?seriesid=3 http://en.zhaoxin.com/ZXC.aspx?seriesid=3

krylon 9y ago

My first PC had a Cyrix CPU, a P166+, running at 133MHz. PC vendors building middle- to low-end PCs liked them, because they were cheaper than Intel, and for most stuff people did with their PCs back then, it offered acceptable performance. Unless you wanted to play Quake, that is. ;-) But the integer performance of these chips was rather impressive. The other problem was that Cyrix CPUs used more power than Intel's, so they generated more heat and therefore needed a better cooling system. PC vendors often used cheap low-end fans that were well-suited for Pentiums, but caused many, many crashes due to the system overheating. Once I replaced the fan with a bigger one, the crash-rate dropped by about 90%.

djhworld 9y ago

My parents bought a Packard Bell PC as the first family computer, back in 1999 or so, that had a Cyrix, 333mhz from what I recall.

earenndil 9y ago

On their specs page[1], there's a row in the table for the instruction set, which is "x86 and x64(64-bit)". 1: http://en.zhaoxin.com/ZXC.aspx?seriesid=3 http://en.zhaoxin.com/ZXC.aspx?seriesid=3