Amd k6 2 and 3

[Kev G]

i have a motherboard which has a bus speed (highest) of 83mhz and multiplyer (highest) of 5.5 .
can u run an amd k62 400 and k63 400 on 83mhz bus speed ???? if so what multiplyer ??

[CMonster]

You can run a K6-2 400 on that board if the core voltage is supported and the AMD chips are supported by BIOS. I do not know if the K6-3 would be fully supported by your motherboard.

On recent AMD K62/3 chips the 2x multiplier is remapped to 6x, therefore it is easy to set the system to run at 400mhz by setting 2x66 = 396 (400). In addition, 2x75 = 450 and would substantially improver over 66 because of the higher bus speed; however, your expansion cards, memory, or hard disk could balk at the higher bus speed.

Because of the way the 83mhz bus speed on older boards uses a 1/2 divide for PCI speed there could be problems using that bus speed.

[This message has been edited by CMonster (edited 12-16-1999).]