Why would you use one of those with anything other then a super socket 7 motherboard? Even you your board's bios supports the K6-3, it will run like crap compared to how it would run on a MVP3 or ALi Aladdin V. You're also limited to 83MHz (on a good day) x 3.5 on i430 chipsets (as far as I know).

I can understand building an i430 based machine for a Pentium or Cyrix CPU, but using a K6-2+ or K6-III si a waste in my point of view.

K6-3 can run on TX boards 6x75 = 450 MHz no problem. I don't like MVP3 and ALi chipsets. Their only advantage is half-working AGP and 100MHz FSB, which is kinda pointless for me. If I want more performance, PII/III or Athlon is the way to go. K6 will be slow for more demanding games no matter what board it will run on.

I`ve tested a lot of agp cards on my p5a (ali) boards and most of them work fine. Out of 25+ cards (matrox, NV,3dfx) only 3 of them gave troubles.
I had a bit more problems with other boards so it all depends imho.

And yes, p2 or higher is faster but my k6-3+ at 600mhz runs fine with v2 sli.

Advantages compared to normal s7: 100fsb,Higher clock speeds, agp, atx support and at least 128mb cacheable.

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I`ve tested a lot of agp cards on my p5a (ali) boards and most of them work fine. Out of 25+ cards (matrox, NV,3dfx) only 3 of t […]
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I`ve tested a lot of agp cards on my p5a (ali) boards and most of them work fine. Out of 25+ cards (matrox, NV,3dfx) only 3 of them gave troubles.
I had a bit more problems with other boards so it all depends imho.

And yes, p2 or higher is faster but my k6-3+ at 600mhz runs fine with v2 sli.

Advantages compared to normal s7: 100fsb,Higher clock speeds, agp, atx support and at least 128mb cacheable.

to me, ali5 is only good for extreme overclocking. if both running at rated 100fsb, mvp3 with 2mb cache will outperform ali5.
and i had bad experience with ali5's agp compatibility... i was using gigabyte 5ax and win2000, and never able to enable agp mode without crashing, no drivers or utils did any good.

havli wrote:

K6-3 can run on TX boards 6x75 = 450 MHz no problem. I don't like MVP3 and ALi chipsets. Their only advantage is half-working AGP and 100MHz FSB, which is kinda pointless for me. If I want more performance, PII/III or Athlon is the way to go. K6 will be slow for more demanding games no matter what board it will run on.

i think we have different purposes. some people here build retro rigs maybe just to get old games play right, but my primary goal is to collect some meaningful hardware that can present the history of computers. i do run some old games and applications on them to demostrate how they work, but "getting certain speed to run *** game right" or so is not my first thing.

there were some Sony Vaio PCV models and Toshiba Infinia models that had atx 430hx boards

everyone needs an IBM Aptiva with a sliding door. Not ATX or mATX but still.

the Micron Home MPC had a 430hx atx motherboard