Sucess on an AMD!

[Crashman]

OK, so the post was a little misleading. Following the post I've seen about the 2x=6x thing on the K6-2's, I bought a used K6-2 380 and put it in this old Intel chipset AST system. Tested it 24hrs on MPEG video with a cheap oversized Celeron cooler-It runs fine at 400MHz and never crashed or even slowed down! Superiority rules for Intel chipsets, and it turn out that the K6-2 really wasn't that bad a processor (which I knew anyway), but that Super 7 chipsets were just crap (especially VIA)! No problem with the higher core voltage either (set at 2.8v core, not adjustable). So it turn out that this really is a pretty good chip! Just thought I'd let others know my great results in case they were thinking of doing a similar upgrade. I'm selling this one with a warrantee.

Suicide is painless...........

 

[mpjesse]

The K6 and K6-2 were AMD's first success stories- esp. the K6-2. If I'm not mistaken, the K6-2 had a 100mhz FSB before Intel ever did.

-MP Jesse

 

[Crashman]

I set at at 66.6x6 because the chipset only supports 66.6 bus, the jumpers only support up to 3.5x, and the faster K6-2's interpret 2x as 6x. I think the 100MHz bus speed was in response to the PII 400 and 450 using it first.

Suicide is painless...........

 

[mpjesse]

i coulda sworn AMD had that bus first though... doesn't matter. AMD did hit the 1Ghz barrier first though. Actually- technically IBM did, but they never manufactured the chip they made that went to 1ghz- that was in '96.

-MP Jesse

 

[Guest]

Crashman, I am looking at putting a K6-2/350 on a Tyan 1573 board, Intel TX chipset, that has a P55/233 right now. I did a quick trial a few days ago and it seemed to work, SiSoft Sandra burn-in mode ran for hours with no problem, but Prime95 showed a round off error. What did your system show when it posted? Mine showed the chip as a 486/66, but Sandra recognized it correctly as a K-6 chip running at 400. Did your Bios show support for the chip?

Totally agree with your comment about Intel chipset vs Via. The TX machine was my first build and it was SOOOO easy. The K6-2 chip I was playing with came out of my DFI P5BV3+/Via MVP3 computer I built a couple of years ago. What a pain in the ass that second machine was! There is a lot of truth about building a Via based computer in order to get a real, hands-on education about computers! I am looking at building another computer now, and although I am leaning toward an AMD system, what I am reading on this board seems to show that not much has changed at Via. Does anyone know if Intel has plans to build a chipset that supports AMD CPUs?

 

[Crashman]

Mine shows up in Bios as a K6-133. WCPUID clocked it at 400.9MHz.
Intel will never make an AMD compatable chipset. But ALI is back, and nVidia as well as Micron are still working on theirs. The Micron is a particularly interesting unit as it has 8MB of L3 cache on it!

Suicide is painless...........

 

[Guest]

amd did the 100mhz buss first to try to speed access to the onboard l2 cache intel didn't care at first because thier l2 cache ran at 1/2 proccessor speed.
amd went 100 with the k6-2 300. intel waited until the PII 400 to make the switch.

 

[TheSandman]

If intel ever makes chipsets for Amd procesors it will be cuz Amd ownes them. and check out the mainboard guids newest article late vintage: high degree of maturity of the kt133 (a via chipset)

SANDMAN

 

[Crashman]

Didn't the P2-400 come out BEFORE the K6-2 300 by a few days? Didn't the K6-2 333 (66 FSB) come out before the 300?

Suicide is painless...........

 

[Guest]

i think the k6 300 and k6-2 266 came out at 66 and the k6-2 300 was at 100 i am not sure when the PII 400 came out but i believe it was mabye a month or two later. thet was 3 years ago. i can't rememmber yesterday!

 

[Crashman]

I remember now! The K6-2 300 was available in both 66 AND 100 versions! So the first would have been the 66. I think the 333 came next, then the 300/100 came out about the same time as the 350 as a cheaper alternative.

Suicide is painless...........

 

[Guest]

I'm running windowsnt4.0, would it still work?

 

[Guest]

the os should not make a difference.
well win95 needs a patch to run a k6 at or above 350 mhz.
also the k6-2 300/100 came before the k6-2 300/66
in order of release
k6-2 300/100, 300/66, 350/100 333/95, 333/66 366&380 at the same time.

who is more foolish...
the fool, or the fool that takes his advice?

 

[Crashman]

Yes, the 2x/6x setting is in the CPU, not software, so there should be no problems. AMD announced a flaw in Windows 95 that causes system hangs in all K6 processors at 300MHz or higher. The patch is posted on AMD's website, and it only affects Windows 95. The patch works flawlessly, the system I did this to uses it.

Suicide is painless...........