NexGen Processor CPU & Motherboard Combo Nx586-P90 NxVL

[keke]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NexGen-Pro...970306?hash=item4dbcbcc7c2:g:iXsAAOSwqNZgHDA9

 

[Dan_D]

I would buy that at a price that was reasonable. $1,000 isn't reasonable for something that's slower than a Pentium 90.

 

[keke]

think it is worth 300 or 400$ max. got my full working system for 80$ a few years back, crazy to see these prices

 

[kent]

No PCI??

 

[Shadowarez]

untill amd can make enough cpus this will be the norm.

 

[Keljian]

Man this is a blast from the past

 

[Halon]

I wonder if this one has an integrated FPU. The first run of NexGen chips didn't - it'd be a rude surprise for anyone hoping to do complex numerical work, or play Quake. Granted, in 2021 that'd be somewhere between a rounding error of humanity and a boogeyman used to keep legacy support teams up at night, but...

 

[Keljian]

I wonder if this one has an integrated FPU. The first run of NexGen chips didn't - it'd be a rude surprise for anyone hoping to do complex numerical work, or play Quake. Granted, in 2021 that'd be somewhere between a rounding error of humanity and a boogeyman used to keep legacy support teams up at night, but...

The pic suggests that it is in a separate chip on the board

 

[keke]

The pic suggests that it is in a separate chip on the board

No FPU, first Nexgen CPUs did not have it integrated. The second chip is the NxVL chipset, not an FPU.

Nexgen PF version included an FPU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NexGen#/media/File:KL_NexGen_Nx586PF-100.jpg