Demolition-Man wrote on 2023-09-23, 20:47:I found a cheap K6-III 450 AFX, i prefer the K6-III CPUs because of the larger cache.
The onboard L2 Cache doesnt work anymore.
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I found a cheap K6-III 450 AFX, i prefer the K6-III CPUs because of the larger cache.
The onboard L2 Cache doesnt work anymore.
I still don't understand the K6 tools. Which ones do I need and what can they do? I don't actually need overclocking, quite the opposite. Only 50 MHz more, but now there are division zero errors. At Monkey Island for example
I don't think slowdown works.
(as gmlb mentioned, the reclocking tools don't work on the original K6-III, only the "+" chips)
If you got your original K6-III to run 500MHz usably at all, then you have a better chip than mine.
I'll be very surprised if you can get it truly stable at that speed. The original K6-III is pretty much done at 450MHz. At 500Mhz and increased Vcore, I'm not sure if the motherboard can even handle the power draw you'd be dealing with.
My K6-III 450Mhz (marked as a 2.2V) can't even run it's own rated clock speed unless the voltage is bumped to 2.3V. Even after recapping the motherboard (S1590), it's prone to rare glitchiness with that CPU. I'm not sure if I have a bad CPU or the board doesn't like it's power draw, but it never felt more than 99% reliable.
As soon as I tried a "+" chip, I was won over immediately. They use less power and clock up so easily that even a K6-2+ ends up faster.
But if you can't get the "+" to work, then the original K6-III is a good 2nd option, but I wouldn't expect more than 400-450MHz out of it with any reliability.