From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Apr 15 8:36:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C0914FAF for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 08:36:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA32599; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:33:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <199904151533.LAA32599@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Chris Shenton Cc: Arturas Sileikis , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: AMD K6-2, K6-3 References: <37145A75.3D9D95C@el.vtu.lt> In-reply-to: Your message of "14 Apr 1999 11:18:50 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:33:55 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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