Reply 20 of 100, by Standard Def Steve
I was never a fan of the K6 line. I recently pulled a K6-2 300MHz (512K L2) system out of the trash and found that the performance was well below that of my PII-300.
One of the first things I noticed about the K6-2 system was that the Windows GUI got a little choppy when I tried playing MP3 and AAC music in the background (streamed over LAN from my file server). The PII-300 had absolutely no problem multitasking with music playing. The PII could also handle DVD playback just fine with GPU assistance; the K6 had trouble even with a Radeon VE.
Years ago I had a 500MHz K6-2 w/ 2MB L2 that I tried to max out. No matter what I did, I couldn't get the performance anywhere near my Katmai-550.
Yeah, the K6-3+ is faster thanks to the on chip cache, but I highly doubt it's enough to get it close to Athlon or PIII performance. Plus, Super 7 boards in general are just flaky as hell.
94 MHz NEC VR4300 | SGI Reality CoPro | 8MB RDRAM | Each game gets its own SSD - nooice!