Overclocking an AMD K6-2/300 \ VOGONS

Overclocking an AMD K6-2/300

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First post, by Half-Saint

Posted on 2013-12-13, 22:09

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I decided to see how fast I could go with my Super Socket 7 rig. Originally it was setup as 4x 66 and it worked fine. Switching to 3x 100 and 3.5 x 100 worked as well. 4x 100... not so well 😀 I settled for 4.5x 83MHz for a stable 372MHz overclock.

Now the questions:
1) Which is faster: 3.5x 100 or 4.5x 83?
- I know that higher FSB should be faster but I'm guessing there shouldn't be much difference between the two.
2) What's a good benchmarking software for comparison?
3) Is it normal for Windows 98 to take 2 minutes to load? 😀

Reply 1 of 8, by mwdmeyer

Posted on 2013-12-13, 23:48

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The issue with the K6/2 is that the L2 cache is external and is limited by the FSB, so I would think that the 100MHz FSB would be faster. No idea by how much though. 😀

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Reply 2 of 8, by Nahkri

Posted on 2013-12-14, 08:02

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I'd say use 100mhz fsb,the overall performance of the pc should be better,have u tried increasing voltage to keep it stable at 4x100?

Reply 3 of 8, by Half-Saint

Posted on 2013-12-14, 11:55

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Increased voltage by 0.1 V and was able to boot into Windows at 400Mhz. Now to do some stability testing...

Reply 4 of 8, by noshutdown

Posted on 2013-12-14, 15:36

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my vote goes to 100*3.5 too. but why would you bother messing with that cpu? can't you get a k6-2 rated at 500/550 or even k6-2+ with ease?

Reply 5 of 8, by Half-Saint

Posted on 2013-12-14, 18:42

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Yes I gues I could but where's fun in that? 😀

Reply 6 of 8, by nforce4max

Posted on 2013-12-14, 22:03

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When it comes to SS7 higher the fsb the better.

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Reply 7 of 8, by Half-Saint

Posted on 2013-12-14, 22:12

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Hrm, why does CPUZ show no info on L2 cache? Is it because it's not on dye?

Reply 8 of 8, by sliderider

Posted on 2013-12-15, 01:17

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Why overclock, when faster K6-2 and K6-III chips are still cheap?

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