retro games 100 wrote:Tetrium wrote:retro games 100 wrote:Tetrium, is your Gigabyte GA-5AX SS7 mobo a revision 4.1 board? If it is, does it have the bugged >128MB RAM cache problem, like my revision 5.2 board does?
I believe it is actually, and yes, I believe it has the bugged version of the chipset. But as it's got a K6-3/400 AFX in it, the bugged cacheable area doesn't matter 😉
Yes of course! I still have a K6-3/400 in my ebay watch list. I must get around to buying it. Sometimes I leave things in my watch list for months, and sometimes they disappear and I forget what it was I was looking at.
Lol, exactly the same here! 😜
But it has the advantage that you can see later for how much it sold 😉
Is it me, or are the normal K6-3's that much harder to find?
The K6-3+ is available in large numbers, for cheap and they are all brand new!
If I see a K6-3 for sale, it's usually the 2.4v part, and that part consumes a LOT more power then the 2.2v part.
Ok, looked it up (and it seems I called the 2.2v part the AFX, but it should be AFR...sorry!), link:
http://mysite.verizon.net/pchardwarelinks/elec_pentium.htm
The 400Mhz 2.2v part consumes about 18W's (maximum of course), which is slightly more then the P1-233Mhz (or a Coppermine at about 650Mhz). The 2.4v part consumes about 27W's, which is about the same as a P2-400, or a Coppermine running at 1Ghz. Quite a difference if you take into account that, except for voltage, it behaves exactly the same!