The K6 FPU is a lot slower than the P6 FPU in the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, and Pentium III
With 3dfx card, AMD K6-2 400Mhz/66Mhz is more or less on par with Pentium Pro 200Mhz 256Kb or Pentium II 200Mhz.
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
I recently acquired an ATI Rage 128 VR 8MB and a K6-2 266MHz- maybe I could use those, and overclock the K6-2, or I could give it the 8MB ATI card and overclock the Pentium 200MMX?
With that ATI card, I may start getting somewhere.
Where am I?
I had a Cyrix MII-300 in 1999, but I rarely had over $500 in a computer all in, sometimes less than $100
Funny thing was I always had a big 60gb HD of some sort 1999 onward.
My first k6-2 was in 2000 and clocked in at 450,
Not long after I got my parents a Duron 700 SIS 740 based machine (for the business)
I upgraded the k6-2 to a Slot A Athon 750 in 2002, the motherboard was very flakey but fully reliable once you learned its startup procedure.
Fun times
I recently acquired an ATI Rage 128 VR 8MB and a K6-2 266MHz- maybe I could use those, and overclock the K6-2,
Unfortunately, early ATi cards are bad option for AMD K6-2, because they don't support 3DNow! instruction set. You should look for any 3dfx, Nvdia TNT+ or S3 Savage 4. In that priority order.
As I've mentioned before, 8mb Riva TNT would be quite authentic for a budget 1999 build. While a bit of a stretch in terms of availability for early 1999, S3 Savage4 8mb also would be also decent option.
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
wrote:Unfortunately, early ATi cards are bad option for AMD K6-2, because they don't support 3DNow! instruction set. You should look for any 3dfx, Nvdia TNT+ or S3 Savage 4. In that priority order.
As I've mentioned before, 8mb Riva TNT would be quite authentic for a budget 1999 build. While a bit of a stretch in terms of availability for early 1999, S3 Savage4 8mb also would be also decent option.
I got the ATi card for free; I have no money at the moment, so a ~US$30 (the cheapest OG TNT I can find) card isn't going to be possible. I always want to be as authentic as possible, but there are always times where I will have to compromise because of a lack of funds.
If the R128 doesn't support 3DNow!, I will have to overclock the P55C and make do with that. I hope it will at least work better than the buggy, broken (at least on any non-Intel chipset, figures) Intel 740 card.
Where am I?
