[K6-2+ inside] An really old-school review

[NoM$_YesLinux]

Hi guys,

Is somewhat unusual in times of Phenom II, i7 or whatever someone do a
review of an jurassic hardware like K6-2+, but as I had this rig
laying around so decided to do an "really old-school" review of this...

Results:
K6 Write Allocate = ON

K6 Write Allocate = OFF








Brazilian Portuguese full review:
http://forum.overbr.com.br/showthread.php?t=40763

Full Review translated to English:
http://translate.google.com.br/trans...hp%3Ft%3D40763

Enjoy and sorry my bad english.

[BeepBeep2]

Pure awesome.

[richierich]

throwback!

[slaveondope]

That was the first cpu I personally bought and built a rig around.
Very awesome to see how far we've come

[Ccaution]

Wow - I love those retro-benchers! Good job!!!

But dude - you've got some serious vcore fluctuation there... damn that ASUS...

[NoM$_YesLinux]

Pure awesome.

That was the first cpu I personally bought and built a rig around.
Very awesome to see how far we've come

Thanks guys!

throwback!

Compared to any modern system its really a throwback, but still fun to play with.

Wow - I love those retro-benchers! Good job!!!

But dude - you've got some serious vcore fluctuation there... damn that ASUS...

Thanks!
CPU-Z runs a bit weird in this rig, look this:



Reading the vcore on multimeter always show a higher value than the setted on jumpers (eg: 2.3v = 2.36v on practice) but at least its stable, in pifast and hyperpi screenshots, the vcore fluctuation must be cpu-z madness...

[Oranuro]

I really enjoyed this bit, sure does bring back memories of that era.

[Mechromancer]

This should really make us appreciate how far we've come in these last 12 or so years. Our cell phones can run circles around this thing. Also, that 120mhz overclock is excellent for it's time. Thank you very much for this review.

[FlanK3r]

whau, nice! I had one time K6 350, it was cool PC,K6+woodoo 3 2000, nicely 45 FPS in quake 3 arena

[Oliverda]

Here is mine:













VGA: Sapphire Radeon 9200 64MB (128bit, GPU: 250MHz, MEM: 200MHz)

PI:

[pxhx]

Good work!

[massman]

Loved the K6/2 cpus

[AlleyViper]

Got mine still running, actually my sig from another forum where my computer info doesn't matter is:

Shuttle HOT-591P 512KB L3 REV.2.0, bios 591PS025 @100/66/33 1:1
K6-III+ 500 ANZ 256KB L2 @600MHz/2.0V + CM DP5-6I31C-A1, TT 6x2.5cm/7krpm/38cfm fan @7V
2X256MB pc133 CL3 @100MHz/2-2-2-5
HP GeForce2 GTS 32MB AGP
SB AWE64 Value ISA, RTL NIC, Trust USB 2.0 5-Port PCI
Samsung Spinpoint 80GB, Quantum Fireball 6.4GB, NEC ND-3500A
Mini AT case (ATX modded) with:
8cm TT Std Fan @7V
Generic 300w ATX


I've ran in the same mb a few cpus in the last 5 years, from an ancient k6-IIIp 380, a k6-ii+ 550, to the actual k6-iii+ 500. Unfortunately my mobo limits me to 100x6 and only two sticks of ram. No manual options over 100MHz bus, and only 512KB L3 cache. IIRC, my 1M's are around 5:20s.
MVP3 aren't stellar as Ali on memory benchmarks. For a vast info on these platforms, just head to the k6plus forums!
From personal experience, w2k runs quite a bit snapier than XP in regular desktop use, unlike in newer and more powerful slot/socket A builds.

[aythrea]

That is sexy in such the retro fashion. Kinda like the old 70's Playboy magazines; with a certain degree of class involved.

[imamage]

My first AMD rig is a AMD K6-2 300MHz with MSI ALi Aladdin Chipset board
pair with Matrox MGA-G200 and Creative AWE64 Gold (To play Final Fantasy VII PC )

Good old times
Nice sharing

[NoM$_YesLinux]

I really enjoyed this bit, sure does bring back memories of that era.

That was my idea when I decided to do this review!

This should really make us appreciate how far we've come in these last 12 or so years. Our cell phones can run circles around this thing. Also, that 120mhz overclock is excellent for it's time. Thank you very much for this review.

Yeah, this is really amazing, just 10 years between a processor who takes 522s to run pifast to an hexacore capable to do this task in just 16s, just impressive...

My first AMD rig is a AMD K6-2 300MHz with MSI ALi Aladdin Chipset board
pair with Matrox MGA-G200 and Creative AWE64 Gold (To play Final Fantasy VII PC )

Good old times
Nice sharing

Nice rig, "my" first rig (which isn't mine because I had 5 years old in this time) is a AMD 5x86 133MHz + 16MB + Trident 9440 () and a good old Creative SB16 and Win 3.11, nostalgic...

That is sexy in such the retro fashion. Kinda like the old 70's Playboy magazines; with a certain degree of class involved.

whau, nice! I had one time K6 350, it was cool PC,K6+woodoo 3 2000, nicely 45 FPS in quake 3 arena

These 3dfx cards are really amazing, one day I get one of these!

Here is mine:
...

K6-III+ very rare.
And Impressive results...

Good work!

Thanks my friend

Loved the K6/2 cpus

...

Haha, this screen remind me this thread:
http://67.90.82.13/forums/showthread.php?t=143275

Got mine still running, actually my sig from another forum where my computer info doesn't matter is:

Shuttle HOT-591P 512KB L3 REV.2.0, bios 591PS025 @100/66/33 1:1
K6-III+ 500 ANZ 256KB L2 @600MHz/2.0V + CM DP5-6I31C-A1, TT 6x2.5cm/7krpm/38cfm fan @7V
2X256MB pc133 CL3 @100MHz/2-2-2-5
HP GeForce2 GTS 32MB AGP
SB AWE64 Value ISA, RTL NIC, Trust USB 2.0 5-Port PCI
Samsung Spinpoint 80GB, Quantum Fireball 6.4GB, NEC ND-3500A
Mini AT case (ATX modded) with:
8cm TT Std Fan @7V
Generic 300w ATX


I've ran in the same mb a few cpus in the last 5 years, from an ancient k6-IIIp 380, a k6-ii+ 550, to the actual k6-iii+ 500. Unfortunately my mobo limits me to 100x6 and only two sticks of ram. No manual options over 100MHz bus, and only 512KB L3 cache. IIRC, my 1M's are around 5:20s.
MVP3 aren't stellar as Ali on memory benchmarks. For a vast info on these platforms, just head to the k6plus forums!
From personal experience, w2k runs quite a bit snapier than XP in regular desktop use, unlike in newer and more powerful slot/socket A builds.

Nice old-school rig!
K6Plus rocks, actually has a lot of info of socket 7, this forum help me a lot while I doing this review, even they deserve a citation at the conclusion of my article...

[FlanK3r]

how "good" is this chip in wprime 32M

[NoM$_YesLinux]

how "good" is this chip in wprime 32M

http://hwbot.org/community/submissio...in_20sec_330ms

wPrime isn't my favorite bench...

[Lightman]

I'm glad you guys posted this!
I still have K6-2 500MHz in an old school computer, but I really wanted K6-2+ or K6-III+ as this was the only processor generation from AMD I didn't play with

[possessed]

Here is mine:

lol, very similar to mine, I also have, a k6-III+ but it's a 450ACZ IIRC, same epox board with 1MB L3, and an all powerful 3dfx voodoo5 for some proper "old times" playing.

[charged3800z24]

I still have my first K6 II 450 in the garage. I use it to program my cars computer (MSII, or megasquirt II) First chip I ever bought my self.

[AmiJIm]

A whole new world revealed when i upgraded from a pentium 1 233mmx to an AMD k6-2 400mhz on an ASUS p5a and an ATI rage fury based on a rage 128 pro chipset.Overclocking to 500mhz and upgrading to a real k6-2 550mhz and then to a k6-3+ ACZ oc to 600mhz as talked in the forums on AMDZONE.com and finally to K6-3+ ATZ core oc to 660mhz.
Kept this mobo active in the quake 2 and the hidden and dangerous era.K6-3+ was the p3 katmai killer cpu due to its for the first time acomplished l2 full speed cache!Also use daily this cpu in the sun cobalt qube3 .AMD 's first burst in my opinion.
http://cgi.ebay.de/AMD-K6-III-400-MH...item1c1433f835

[Particle]

Much love.

I also used to run a K6-II or K6-III under TEC. The funny thing is that I never actually ran an AMD CPU older than the Thunderbird core (Athlon) anything but retroactively. I went from a Pentium 100 to a 200, then to a Celeron 433, and then to a Celeron 533 (ran it at 920 MHz heh). After that last system's motherboard blew up, I jumped to a 1.2 GHz AMD Athlon. From then on I've been mostly an AMD guy, though I had a stint with a Core 2 Duo E6600 back in 2006 and 2007 between runs with an Athlon 64 3000+ and a Phenom 9850.

[Oranuro]

Whatever happened to Epox anyways?, was one of my favorite brands during the T-Bred Days.

[Meizuman]

EPoX still has its russian pages up.

www.epox.ru

I think they changed their name in some point, to SUPoX, and... I don't know
History

http://www.epox.cn/

EDIT: Looks like they are still active in china. They have some anniversary edition mobos (1995-2010). Though looking at their promo pictures, all mobos look like really cheap. For example THIS
Nice HTPC mobo despite the shopped heatsink...

I have an EPoX mobo on my Socket A rig, thats used by my folks. I really love that one.

On topic, the first "real" computer that we had at home, was powered by AMD K6-II 500 MHz. Before that, it had 233 MHz CPU. The mobo is some SOYO board with AGP bus. It had some Voodoo card when it had the 233 MHz CPU, Unreal, NFS II and Quake II were some games I played with it. When the CPU was changed, it had GeForce 2 MX. Of course the rig was already quite old when we got it. I played Operation Flashpoint with it. Its still around, but not in use. Tried to OC, and got 600 MHz out of it. Should install Win 98 on it and do some retro gaming. Maybe a dual boot with ubuntu...