I was going to buy the K63-450 in February. The tech told me AMD didn't
support the K3 because the tri-level cache was flaky and undependable IF I
was doing equations and other mathematical computations. Based on that and
the fact I don't know anything about a cache, I bought a K62-500 instead.
Considering the fact that I managed to totally mis-match the board and
chip, it has been a remarkably wonderful processor. Winflop is unstable;
Linux won't install - but the chip never fails. Now I'm looking at the ASUS
PA-B (baby AT)to replace the board I just installed in a new AT tower. I
can underclock the chip to 233 and run it on this board, but it would
defeat the purpose of having it. I could have kept my money and run my
MMX200. This has been a LARGE lesson.
Any suggestions?
Pj
At 12:46 PM 8/26/00 +0200, you wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:59:32PM -0400, Richard Potter wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
>>
>> > The L1 cache _always_ runs at processor speed on any processor
>> > that I know of ... To do otherwise would defeat its purpose IMHO.
>> > But the K6-3 also has 256K of _L2_ cache (yep, level 2, the cache
>> > on the MB, if any, is level 3) running at full processor speed.
>>
>> Yeap... and at end of life prices, the K6-III was an excellent buy. AMD
>> still offers OEM's K6-2+ (128K on-chip L2 cache) and K6-III+ (256K
>> on-chip L2 cache) cpu's for the mobile market. If they were available
>> retail, they would be great chips to extend the life of Socket 7
>> motherboards.
>
>Actually, the AMD K6-III 450MHz performs almost like an Pentium II 450MHz.
>Got the AMD at Home, the Pentium II at work. I prefere the AMD :)
>
>Many people are talking about unstable AMD-Systems etc. But most of the
>time, they don't inform themselves what runs how and where.
>
>Since the beginning I run AMD CPU's and never had a problem. I fried on
>Motherboards AGP-Power line once because the Board didn't stand the Load
>of the Voodoo-III 3000 Board I had inside.
>
>Cya
> smurphy
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