The New K6-2 500mhz

[Tracker]

I am purchasing the new k6-2 500mhz chip (2.2v,and 2.4v is what they are making) for $130 total, and I have heard that the L1 cache doesn't work above 500mhz, so I am guessing there is no overclocking to this chip. Does anyone know if this is true. But I kinda am looking forward to some bit of improvement over my 400mhz K6-2. I will let you guys know how it performs and the benchmarks for it when I get it. Please tell me if there is a possible way to o\c it, with the cache still working ro this is all K6-2 can put up for a while. O\c would be great to do to it, but I will be happy with 500mhz.

[Vampiel]

Last I knew there was no k6/2-500??? You mean the ATHLON 500? For that fact, I didnt even think there was an k6/3-500?? You must be talking about the ATHLON 500, it would be a k7 in equavilant. k6=6x86 pII=6x86 ATHLON=7x86 pIII=7x86 etc... they just started to like to come up with fancy names instead of calling them 386/486 etc...

[wee96]

There is a K6-2 500, and your correct the cache if im not mistaken cant do very well above 500 (i think 550 was the most ive heard, which is very rare). But you will have 500 guarenteed, which your 400 can probably not do stable. I'd say go for it.

[Tracker]

My 400 has done it once and that is it and will not do 500 again, so this guarintees me the 500 performance and that is what I want, maybe I will just try to o\c to see if it does. And yes there is a K6-2 500mhz, just go to AMD and look they have it.

[alpha]

If you're really desperate to oc this K-6 2 then you'll probably have to disable the internal cache /forum/frown.gif Of course, disabaling the cache makes every thing run (or rather crawl) along vverrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyy slllllllloooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwly. Oh, sorry, keyboard repeat.

[LED]

The K6-2 500 is Overclocker friendly. I've communiqued with two people who have OEM versions and both got over 550MHz.

[MaxVal]

I have to wonder if the performance improvement justifies the cost! You will not notice much difference.
A better choice for an upgrade on a super7 board would probably be a K6-3 450. The reason is the 256K of on chip cache.
MAX

[ram]

Gents i just today got a k6-2 500 and its running good so far at 550mhz 2.4V 100mhz X 5.5 So whats this about the cache ??
Am i blowing it here,i mean do i ahve a improvment or not?

[CMonster]

Ram - way to go! You brought an 8-month old thread back from the dead - those guys have probably already ditched those K6-2 systems for C2s, P3s' or Athlons...

Well, my K6-2s are still alive and well..

[wtp]

with an alpha, i got mine at 571@2.2v. 550 was no problem.

wtp

[ram]

http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif Well im old man,takes me awhile to get moving on stuff http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[wtp]

well, as long as u can move, and read, you can overclock. hehe.

wtp

[Lancelot2]

I just replaced my 2.2 K6 450(O/C'd to 500) with a retail K6 550 and it is running great at 100 bus speed(board doesn't go higher).
The one main difference I noticed was that this new 550 had printed on it to run at 2.3.
Has any one else got a 550 with this voltage?
I am running it at 2.5 as my board jumps from 2.2 to 2.5 or higher.

[Peter M]

All K6-2/550 are 2.3V.

Regards, Peter

[Da-AzN_OverClocker]

Hey Hey then, I tell you something people, I have my AMD k6-2 on a gigabyte ga-5ax (with the agp problem) running at 600mhz fine at 5x120mhz bus at 2.7 volts runs fine but my pci devices maybe not
About the chip ur talking about, it seems that ur chip is one of the older ones, some how AMD's chip seem to be more o/cable if the stepping is higher, compared to intel
I have owned 2 amd k6-2 500, I previous melted my other one

does anyone know if I can run it any higher ?? because I can't even go to 605mhz, but so far 600mhz seems great!

[Win_98]

The level 1 cache on k6-2 is the only thing that speed up the cpu, turn it off
and it crawl at a turle speed of 1/10 of it actual speed.
Level 2 on motherboard is meant to speed up
application only and doesn't help the cpu in anyway therefore there is less harddrive activity when say zipping files etc...
Yes I used a celeron and it seem to having a hard time archiving files using zip, rar,
etc... pausing every few sec.
With K6-2 it zip right throught...
Finishes instantly.
Due to lack of a large cache so it isn't as useless as we thought. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

I am now using a 2M cache DFI ATX
Don't notice anything faster because remember
it doesn't speed up cpu but rather speed up
application when you doing alot of thing at once http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif I hope I gotten that clear out.



[This message has been edited by Win_98 (edited 07-03-2000).]