Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.
Posted on 2020-07-13, 19:52
It’s B1 revision, 1Mb of cache 🤔 Oh well 🙁 Will have to wait for the red one then 😁 I must now fix my P5AB 🙁 It wants no more torture 🙁
The merits of Socket 7 processors - Intel P54C/P55C | AMD K5/K6/K6-2 | Cyrix/IBM 6x86 | IDT Winchip
Posted on 2020-07-16, 10:15
I was wondering what the general thoughts and consensus is around Socket 7 processors? I've built a system around an Intel 430TX Socket 7 board with a fairly diverse compatibility with chips of this era. (60MHz bus 1.5x - 3x | 66MHz bus 1.5x - 4.5x | 75MHz 2x - 3x) I'm running a Pentium MMX P55C …
Re: The merits of Socket 7 processors - Intel P54C/P55C | AMD K5/K6/K6-2 | Cyrix/IBM 6x86 | IDT Winchip
Posted on 2020-07-16, 18:04
There are a few issues of Byte with great coverage of those 90s CPUs https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1994-11_OCR https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1995-11_OCR
Re: The merits of Socket 7 processors - Intel P54C/P55C | AMD K5/K6/K6-2 | Cyrix/IBM 6x86 | IDT Winchip
Posted on 2020-07-16, 18:55
Don't forget the K6-2+, which is a K6-III but with half the cache and a lower voltage. There are quite a few available on eBay. I upgraded my HOT-591P which had a PMMX 233 from back in the day to one of these.
Re: The merits of Socket 7 processors - Intel P54C/P55C | AMD K5/K6/K6-2 | Cyrix/IBM 6x86 | IDT Winchip
Posted on 2020-07-16, 22:41
Don't forget the K6-2+, which is a K6-III but with half the cache and a lower voltage. There are quite a few available on eBay. I upgraded my HOT-591P which had a PMMX 233 from back in the day to one of these. Pretty expensive on eBay though. For that price I can get more RAM and a new GPU for a …
Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.
Posted on 2020-07-17, 11:13
It seems that Asus P5A offers a little more. K6-2+ 500 @ 633 and K6-3+ mobile 400 both took 633 @ asus P5A. v1.06 and Gigabyte GA-5AX . 115 FSB is too heavy for a cache module. It needs replacement to a more frequency-capable one in Asus. Gigabyte is ok. The screen is made on a Gigabyte GA-5AX mobo. …
Re: The merits of Socket 7 processors - Intel P54C/P55C | AMD K5/K6/K6-2 | Cyrix/IBM 6x86 | IDT Winchip
Posted on 2020-07-17, 14:17
this is all great info - thank you
Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.
Posted on 2020-07-17, 16:09
Mentat, remember the problem could be the internal tag and not the cache. I have 0 experience with overclocking internal tag. The info on this is vague. Dit you try to use higher VIO? P5A/P5AB is bad overclock with stock VIO.
Re: The merits of Socket 7 processors - Intel P54C/P55C | AMD K5/K6/K6-2 | Cyrix/IBM 6x86 | IDT Winchip
Posted on 2020-07-17, 20:14
Don't forget the K6-2+, which is a K6-III but with half the cache and a lower voltage. There are quite a few available on eBay. I upgraded my HOT-591P which had a PMMX 233 from back in the day to one of these. Pretty expensive on eBay though. For that price I can get more RAM and a new GPU for a …
Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.
Posted on 2020-07-17, 22:31
Dit you try to use higher VIO? P5A/P5AB is bad overclock with stock VIO. Im running my Asus p5a in 616mhz 112x5.5 I cant get higher. I have not tried raising the VIO. How high do I need to push the VIO? And whatnvoltage is considered safe ? I am certainly not using the system 24/7. Maybe 20 hours …
Re: The merits of Socket 7 processors - Intel P54C/P55C | AMD K5/K6/K6-2 | Cyrix/IBM 6x86 | IDT Winchip
Posted on 2020-07-17, 22:32
IF you're going to judge merits, don't forget to take their original selling prices into the factor. Pentiums were expensive luxuries, and it's easy to forget that in 20XX without context and think all the other CPUs are a waste and get narrowly judged with quake not providing enough bungholiomarks …
Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.
Posted on 2020-07-18, 00:48
What's the procedure to keep 3d Mark 99 Max running when you upgrade Direct X to 8 or nine?
Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.
Posted on 2020-07-18, 11:53
Dit you try to use higher VIO? P5A/P5AB is bad overclock with stock VIO. Im running my Asus p5a in 616mhz 112x5.5 I cant get higher. I have not tried raising the VIO. How high do I need to push the VIO? And whatnvoltage is considered safe ? I am certainly not using the system 24/7. Maybe 20 hours …
Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.
Posted on 2020-07-18, 11:55
Repo Man11 wrote on 2020-07-18, 00:48: What's the procedure to keep 3d Mark 99 Max running when you upgrade Direct X to 8 or nine? I have little experience with 99, it should still work if you install DX8 I would think.
Re: The merits of Socket 7 processors - Intel P54C/P55C | AMD K5/K6/K6-2 | Cyrix/IBM 6x86 | IDT Winchip
Posted on 2020-07-18, 12:28
K5 is a very nice option if you like older games.
Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.
Posted on 2020-07-18, 13:32
What's the procedure to keep 3d Mark 99 Max running when you upgrade Direct X to 8 or nine? I have little experience with 99, it should still work if you install DX8 I would think. So here's what discovered; if you install 3D Mark 99 when you have Direct X 7, it works with no problem even if you …
Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.
Posted on 2020-07-18, 17:38
It seems that Asus P5A offers a little more. K6-2+ 500 @ 633 and K6-3+ mobile 400 both took 633 @ asus P5A. v1.06 and Gigabyte GA-5AX . 115 FSB is too heavy for a cache module. It needs replacement to a more frequency-capable one in Asus. Gigabyte is ok. The screen is made on a Gigabyte GA-5AX mobo …
Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.
Posted on 2020-07-19, 10:13
So here's what discovered; if you install 3D Mark 99 when you have Direct X 7, it works with no problem even if you update to Direct X 9 - but if you update beyond Direct X 7 then try to install 99, it refuses to install (unless there's some work around that I don't know of). This is not my …
Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.
Posted on 2020-07-19, 15:17
It seems that Asus P5A offers a little more. K6-2+ 500 @ 633 and K6-3+ mobile 400 both took 633 @ asus P5A. v1.06 and Gigabyte GA-5AX . 115 FSB is too heavy for a cache module. It needs replacement to a more frequency-capable one in Asus. Gigabyte is ok. The screen is made on a Gigabyte GA-5AX mobo …
Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.
Posted on 2020-07-20, 08:49
Mentat, you always get me excited when you post 😁 So did it help to go from 5ns to 4ns? Are you going to try 1024Kb? I would like to see the performance of Rev 1.04 Vs Rev 1.06 😁
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