First post, by carangil
I just put a k6-2+ 570 I got off ebay into my super socket 7 board. It's meant to run at a FSB of 95 at 6x multiplier. I'm running a 100 Mhz bus, so it comes out to 600 Mhz!
The on-chip cache really helps too!
Specifications:
-MSI 5184 Baby AT Super Socket 7.
-k6-2+ running at 600 Mhz, 128 on-chip cache (also at 600 Mhz)
-512 MB PC100 Ram, CAS timing in BIOS set to 2
-Voodoo 3 2000, 16 MB AGP
-80GB Hard drive
-4GB Compact Flash boot drive (UDMA supported) (Hey, its an SSD!)
-52x CD-ROM
-SB16 ISA
-No Floppy!
-Case originally held a 286
What else can I do to turbo it up?
Notes:
-The BIOS on the board does not support k6-2+ technically. At boot-up it says the CPU is running at 25 Mhz! Cpu-z and cat /proc/cpuinfo tell the real story: 600 Mhz. There is a beta bios I can flash with, but I don't want to risk it, and I find the 25Mhz number quite amusing.
-The mobo cache I believe is limited to 128MB per DIMM. So only 256MB of system memory is cached by the mobo. Fortunately, the CPU cache of the k6-2+ makes up for this.
- I did have a PCI sound card (some C-media junk) installed as well, but found it unnecssary; most of the games I run use software mixing anyway, so might as well just use the SB16 and not worry plugging/unplugging the speaker cable back and forth between cards.
- I put in the 4gb flash card a few years ago after the HD failed, I didn't want to buy a new one for an old PC. I installed win98 onto it, and oiginally this computer was going to run a few games and that was it. A fast CF card with no swap file was going to run 'forever.' When I retired some other computer, its 80gb drive was donated to this PC. So I put linux on it.