My first PC had a Cyrix "P166+" running at 133MHz. That CPU used almost twice the power of a Pentium running at the same clock speed, yet many PC vendors put th

My first PC had a Cyrix "P166+" running at 133MHz. That CPU used almost twice the power of a Pentium running at the same clock speed, yet many PC vendors put the same fans on both. As a result, under heavy load, my PC would crash rather often, leading me to curse audibly until somebody pointed out the power vs fan issue to me and recommended I get a bigger fan. So I did. After that, it ran pretty stable. Cyrix made a trade of in that CPU, the integer performance was far better than that of a Pentium at the same clock speed, the floating point performance lagged far behind. I got that machine in the summer of 1996, and then all my friends started playing Quake, which made me sad. Playing Quake (let alone Quake II) on that machine was more like staring at a slideshow. A 3dfx card was way outside my budget, unfortunately.