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It is 16bit, has 16bit addressing, has 16bit registers and executes 16bit operations. How is it 8bit?
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All instructions are 8 bit. There are only 256. The regesters are only 8 bit, and only the a accumulator and X and Y. the 8080 was much better, but PCs took some time to get the add in cards up to match the onboard stuff the c-64 has. PCs and games just were not happening.
 
Does any one have a K6-3-500 or a K6-3-550? I'd like to have one, or see it benced at least.

I can't read or understand the silk sceened info on the ECS P5SS-Me to set the jumpers for Vcore, FSB and multiplyer. I have a GenStar Mobo with a VIA chipset that has dip switches, (not jumpers, also EDO{woot} and SDRAM) and a very good silk screen. I will try it soon. I fished it out of a dumpser. It works.

I'm still looking for a manual for my ECS P5SS-Me.

I have a collection of socket 7 CPUs; 120mhz Pentium, 166mhz Pentium, 200 mhz Pentium, 200mhz Pentium MMX, K6-2-200, 233mhz Pentium MMX, K6-2-333, K6-2-350, and a K6-2-450. I may have some others. I never took a real inventory of all my old junk.
 
Here is my main rig:
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I llke it!

It will run 33s 1M if I tune it for pi, it's tuned for folding@home.

That awesome 3200+ Venice is my wife's now (the one with the 30s 1M and 1:10 2M.)

I have a 3200+ Winchester rig on my desk too. I never ran super pi on it, it's a looser anyway. 🙁

Here's my C-64:
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Auh, my 3200+ Winnie at stock. It wont OC much anyway, it needs to be stock to be stable enough to fold. If it had all the junk my main rig has on it it would be five of more seconds slower.
 
I'm using an Ali Aladdin V. They had the best stability form what I've read. I'm surprised superpi crashed.

Hey Conroe, I have a 400 mhz K6 III I need to sell...... :wink:
 
I setup my GenStar VIA Apollo Vp3 mobo.
It has a fresh install of Windows 98 SE, and sports a GeForce 2 MX 400 PCI card.

It had a K6-2-300 on it when I found it in the trash.
It ran :
K6-2-300: 1M in 14:1
I put a 166 Pentium (not MMX) in and it ran:
P54-166MHz: 1M in 17:1
I bumped the FSB up to 83MHz, that made the 166 run at 208:
P54 at 208MHz 1M in 13:43

Funny, 208MHz is faster than 300MHz!!!
I need to overclock the K6-2-300 to be fair, but the diference from stock to overclocked is impressive.

The fastest Socket 7 I have is a K6-2-400 I thought it was a K6-2-450.

My Asus P5A-b is broken and another SIS 530 board (SuperPro 5BSM?) has a problem. CPUZ shows the clock speed changing up and down all the way to zero sometimes. It still worked. I guess CPUZ is not compatable or something? The ECS SIS mobo has Windows 2000 pro intalled with it and I don't know how to port it over to another mobo? I get a config.sys error at boot? I wish I could use that with my Winchester but it did not come with the CD. I think I figured out the ECS's jumpers. I'll try out the K6-2-400 on it.
 
Times realy changed with netburst. Now conroe goes with the old design that was better than AMD's and get better IPC angain. Netbust was a mistake from that perspective, but when some plain old Joe goes to Wallmart to buy a PC those clock speeds sell a computer. Intel sold allot of netburst CPUs that way.

K6 was not so good, K7 was a vast improvement.
 
Times realy changed with netburst. Now conroe goes with the old design that was better than AMD's and get better IPC angain. Netbust was a mistake from that perspective, but when some plain old Joe goes to Wallmart to buy a PC those clock speeds sell a computer. Intel sold allot of netburst CPUs that way.

K6 was not so good, K7 was a vast improvement.
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I agree. Although I'd prefer a P4 over a K7. (not necessarily Netburst, there are non Netburst P4's). K8 is better than 90nm Netburst, and maybe even the overall 90nm P4.
 
Willamette was the debut of netburst and Pentium 4. It was slower than the last of the Pentium 3. Then northwood, Prescott, Smithfield, Presler and Cedar Mill desktop CPUs are netburst as well.

Yah, the newer Pentiums are much better than K7 ever was. The whole K7 era was a dog fight! The big problem was memory perfomance and had been ever since Intel stoped alowing AMD CPUs on thier chipsets with Slot 1. AMD needed the the on die memory controler more than Intel does.
 
Times realy changed with netburst. Now conroe goes with the old design that was better than AMD's and get better IPC angain. Netbust was a mistake from that perspective, but when some plain old Joe goes to Wallmart to buy a PC those clock speeds sell a computer. Intel sold allot of netburst CPUs that way.

K6 was not so good, K7 was a vast improvement.
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I'm glad you finally admitted that conroe thank you 😀

northwood, Prescott, Shithfield, Presler
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
MMM would have edited that typo. :?

K-6-400 1M pi is 9:08

I figured the ECS out. 😀 Worst silk screen I ever seen, and it's wrong. ECS is shith. So is K6. I better try overclocking all these old CPUs to see if my 233MMX is better then my K6-2-400 at pi. Hehe.
 
MMM would have edited that typo. :?

K-6-400 1M pi is 9:08

I figured the ECS out. 😀 Worst silk screen I ever seen, and it's wrong. ECS is shith. So is K6. I better try overclocking all these old CPUs to see if my 233MMX is better then my K6-2-400 at pi. Hehe.
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I miss my p3 so much. :cry:
 
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