I made some benchmark back in the time and the K6-2 was pretty fast.

If you want (and whit some time.. say in the weekend) I could make some benchmark tests. I own a K6-2 450 and an Pentium II 450. Both installed Win98 (wel one I just call a week my own, so not much is on there yet). But I could do some Sandra or 3d mark (when I find some drivers for my GPU).

And I wont say that I paid 9 Euros for the K6-2 whit Mainboard in and old AT case... oooops.... 🤣

Doesn't CXT K6-2 CPUs remap the x2 multiplier to x6? You could try getting a K6-2 550 and OCing it to 570 (95*100) or even 600 (100*6).
Also, comparing a K6-2 to a Pentium II when it comes to performance depends on the type of load. Fo non FPU intensive loads the K6-2 is very competitive, and I'd not be surprised if it outperforms a Celeron at the same clock. For FPU intensive loads AMD only caught up with Intel with the Athlons.

If you want to play 3D games, the K6-2 is way slower than a Pentium II. K6-2 450 should be around the Pentium II 266's performance. A K6-III+ 600 is a little slower than a Pentium II 400 for the more popular games.

^what he said.

Here is one review from back in time:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/k6-iii.html

More interesting. Yes, a K6-2/3 will be a gimpy game machine. You can also see the thrill that people who upgraded from K6 to Duron experienced. 😀
https://web.archive.org/web/20040218102625/ht … jsp?id=15000172
https://web.archive.org/web/20031229013654/ht … .jsp?id=5000159

It's also tricky to play a DVD smoothly even on a K6-3+ 600, btw. You probably need to get a 3rd party utility and enable write combining. Hopefully your graphics card agrees with this idea.

And the chipsets are not exactly stable/reliable/AGP compatible.

the k6 performs well on some benchmarks, but using it, I prefer my pII 400 over the k6 II 550 by a big margin, the PII performs a lot more consistently and the platform is far better,

k7 was amazing, one of my favorites, but I'm a little negative towards all the k6, the best k6 board I played with was the p5a but I was mostly stuck with the PC chips stuff (and one Mitac OEM VIA board from a Compaq, which seemed more stable at least) , perhaps if I had the best possible combination my opinion would be different

Roman78 wrote:

I made some benchmark back in the time and the K6-2 was pretty fast.

If you want (and whit some time.. say in the weekend) I could make some benchmark tests. I own a K6-2 450 and an Pentium II 450. Both installed Win98 (wel one I just call a week my own, so not much is on there yet). But I could do some Sandra or 3d mark (when I find some drivers for my GPU).

And I wont say that I paid 9 Euros for the K6-2 whit Mainboard in and old AT case... oooops.... 🤣

How did the benchmarks go?

swaaye wrote:

More interesting. Yes, a K6-2/3 will be a gimpy game machine. You can also see the thrill that people who upgraded from K6 to D […]
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More interesting. Yes, a K6-2/3 will be a gimpy game machine. You can also see the thrill that people who upgraded from K6 to Duron experienced. 😀
https://web.archive.org/web/20040218102625/ht … jsp?id=15000172
https://web.archive.org/web/20031229013654/ht … .jsp?id=5000159

It's also tricky to play a DVD smoothly even on a K6-3+ 600, btw. You probably need to get a 3rd party utility and enable write combining. Hopefully your graphics card agrees with this idea.

And the chipsets are not exactly stable/reliable/AGP compatible.

CXT Core is not so bad.
You can play DVD without problems even on a k6-2 if you can pair it with a good card.
Your 450 can be paired with a GeForce4 MX or a Radeon 7000 (if you don't overclock the fsb) and you will be fine DVD wise.
For modern internet surfing and divx, that's another history.
That's where Swaaye is right, even an overclocked "plus" chip will have problems.
A Radeon 9xxx could Help, a little, but it is really hard to properly and reliably install it on socket7.

Any idea how a Geforce 6200 pci card would do on a SS7 platform? I feel like that would be a great card for DVD playback and such.

ODwilly wrote:

Any idea how a Geforce 6200 pci card would do on a SS7 platform? I feel like that would be a great card for DVD playback and such.

I remember that performance wise was very disappointing, except for OpenGL.
For DVD playback a geforce4MX si more than enough.

Yeah if you use a video card with MPEG2 processing it is more manageable. Pure software decode is somewhat difficult to get smooth however. I was playing with this a few weeks ago. ASUS P5A and K6-3+ running from 200-600MHz. Tried a few different video cards. Voodoo3 as the software decode test. Enabling write combining with a utility helped dramatically.

It doesn't touch a P3 though. I had Katmai decoding fine in software at 300MHz with no tweaking. Seems that SSE is very useful and that video data transfer is more efficient by default.