Which could be faster?

[The_YongGrand]

Well, is an AMD's K6-3 400MHz or a Pentium II 350MHz much better or faster? I heard that the K6-2 450 isn't much faster than the PII 350MHz, but not sure how does a K6-3 fare since I've also seen that in my auction site.

[TwoRails]

Wow... it's been a while, by if I remember right, the AMD were faster then.

[Cricket]

Yeah, I think the K6-3s were slightly faster...possibly because the L2 cache was on-chip and running at full speed instead of off-chip running at half speed like the early Pentium IIs.

Cricket

[rwest]

I beleive it depended on the mobo used. I believe the K6-3 is a a socket 7 processor. That means the mobo used will most likley be only capable of 66fsb. Only a few of these board could run at 100fsb. Which would then make the K6-3 comparable to its p2 counter part.

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by rwest I beleive it depended on the mobo used. I believe the K6-3 is a a socket 7 processor. That means the mobo used will most likley be only capable of 66fsb. Only a few of these board could run at 100fsb. Which would then make the K6-3 comparable to its p2 counter part.

The K6-3 (and K6-2) ran on the Super Socket 7 motherboard which was capable of the 100MHz FSB speeds.

Cricket

[kissfan]

Originally Posted by rwest I beleive it depended on the mobo used. I believe the K6-3 is a a socket 7 processor. That means the mobo used will most likley be only capable of 66fsb. Only a few of these board could run at 100fsb. Which would then make the K6-3 comparable to its p2 counter part.

Unless you had a "Super Skt7" board, then you had a 100mhz FSB to play with.

As it happens I have a never used still in the box PCChips (aghhhhh) Super Skt7 board from a previous employment, and a K6-3 500 chip in a shell I picked up at the tip. Will be putting together in the near future as an historical remembrance. I have tested the shell and it boots, its in an old AT format and the PCChips (aghhh) board has both ATX format and AT power inputs.

Old times eh!

Back on Topic, if memory serves, back then Intel couldn't touch AMD for speed (or heat!!! hahahah). The K6-3 -450 walked all over the P3 500 (Slot1), and was supposed to be a generation behind being on the older socket 7design (Ah Skt7 the universal socket, remember when all cpus fitted in this!) I know I was lucky enough to have both.


Here is a short read on the K6-3 http://www.karbosguide.com/hardware/module3e05.htm


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