> Just curious:
> I saw in my Tiger catalog for June that the AMD K6-2 300mhz w/3D now
> beats out a 400mhz Pentium II. The price for the chip (www.pricewatch.com)
> is 158.00, the AMD K6 300mhz is 128.00 and the Cyrix M2 300mhz is 109.00.
> Anyone out there use the K6-2 w/3D now? If so, does/will Linux support the
> features that make it worth buying?? Or should I just go with a Cryix M2 due
> to price?
There is no such thing as a Cyrix 300Mhz. They are also generally
noticebly slower per mhz than other chips. I have the K6-2 300 w/3Dnow,
and it screams in Linux... Now, the regular K6 wont be much different,
since there is no 3dnow software availabel for Linux yet. It is possible,
tho to get a Mesa/GL driver to support 3Dnow, which could provide an
enormous performace boost (In windows, Quake2/GL performace is 80-90%
faster with 3dnow GL drivers on the same chip, versus standard drivers)
I would go with the K6 or K6-3d...
-Randy
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