Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:33:55 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com> Cc: Arturas Sileikis <art@el.vtu.lt>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6-2, K6-3 Message-ID: <199904151533.LAA32599@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "14 Apr 1999 11:18:50 EDT." <lfg163s011.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com> References: <37145A75.3D9D95C@el.vtu.lt> <lfg163s011.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com>
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I've got a K6-2/350 on an FIC-VA503+ motherboard, and it works really great. I haven't tried this lately with 3.1; this box is my 4.0-current test machine and windows98 gameplaying machine. I'm running it with a 100MHz bus to cache, and at 66MHz for memory accesses - this motherboard is handy in that it has 72 pin SIMM sockets as well as the new-fangled DIMM sites. I was able to reuse 128M of "old" and "slow" memory. I've been really happy with the K2-2; I'm planning on upgrading my "production" FreeBSD machine from a 133MHz Pentium to a K6-3/400 or /450 on the recently announced FIC VA-503A motherboard. It's also an AT-form factor motherboard with 1 AGP+4 PCI slots. There's an option for 2MB of external cache, instead of the 1MB that sounds worth looking into.. The K6-3 CPUs should scream along pretty well, with the on-chip, CPU-clock speed L2 cache and the external L3 (now) cache at 100MHz. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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