I just threw together an old system over the weekend just for fun: a DFI K6VB3+, a K6-2+ 450 @600 (2.1 volts) a WD 40 gigabyte HD on a Maxtor/Promise ATA 133 drive card, 640 megabytes of PC133, a Philips PSC706 sound card, and a GF4 Ti 64 megabyte video card in an AT case. I installed XP pro - it doesn't run too badly, but it definitely shows its age compared to what I'm used to. I wish this board were capable of 112 MHz bus speeds, but its highest setting is 100, and I once tried some of the software for increasing the FSB by targeting the clock generator chip, but nothing worked. I have a 1.6 volt K6-III+ 400 that will run at 600 with 2.3 volts, but you begin to see heat artifacts when you play a DVD movie. That's in spite of the fact that I have a large copper bottomed Socket A cooler on it, running Arctic Silver 5. I could solve that by decapping the K6-III+, but I don't want to. Sadly, this board only has the 512 Meg cache chip on it - some of this model had 1024K L2 (of course, now L3) cache chips. An MVP3 board with 1024K L2, running a K6-3+ and the ability to overclock the FSB would be the ultimate Socket 7 machine. But it would only be for fun, as it's so obsolete. And I'll never have it; take a look at the prices some of this stuff is going for on Ebay! http://www.ebay.com/itm/FIC-VA-503-motherboar … =item48546dc322 Nice of them to throw in the free shipping! I'm now regretting my decision to not save the K6-2+ 550 that was in an old laptop I took to Ewaste a few months ago.
"We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy."