Peter M
09-21-1999, 09:58 AM
Hi all!
AMD's announcement made today about new K6-2 and K6-III speed grades and mobile models brings good news to more people:
Since all "desktop" K6-2 and K6-III are now made for 2.2V (no more 2.4V), people who own mainboards that previously couldn't feed those speed grades due to no 2.4V at all, or not enough amperage drive, may now be able to use one of those processors.
Epox MVP3E (older than v1.0) and early MVP3G (older than v0.4) come to my mind, as well as PC-Chips M577 (older than v3.1). Other manufacturers surely have product bearing similar limitations.
Many older boards may also benefit from the lower risk to fry the CPU voltage regulators from massive overload, or just from the fact that many of them have 2.2V but no 2.4V:
For the PC-Chips boards which I'm most familiar with, M571 might now reach up to 450 MHz (6.0x75), M570 and M590 to 500 MHz (6.0x83 MHz), and some Intel TX based mainboards might now be able to drive a K6-III/400 properly at 2.2V and thus eliminate their cacheable DRAM limitations.
Watch out for these new processor models!
Regards, Peter
AMD's announcement made today about new K6-2 and K6-III speed grades and mobile models brings good news to more people:
Since all "desktop" K6-2 and K6-III are now made for 2.2V (no more 2.4V), people who own mainboards that previously couldn't feed those speed grades due to no 2.4V at all, or not enough amperage drive, may now be able to use one of those processors.
Epox MVP3E (older than v1.0) and early MVP3G (older than v0.4) come to my mind, as well as PC-Chips M577 (older than v3.1). Other manufacturers surely have product bearing similar limitations.
Many older boards may also benefit from the lower risk to fry the CPU voltage regulators from massive overload, or just from the fact that many of them have 2.2V but no 2.4V:
For the PC-Chips boards which I'm most familiar with, M571 might now reach up to 450 MHz (6.0x75), M570 and M590 to 500 MHz (6.0x83 MHz), and some Intel TX based mainboards might now be able to drive a K6-III/400 properly at 2.2V and thus eliminate their cacheable DRAM limitations.
Watch out for these new processor models!
Regards, Peter