First post, by Scythifuge
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Greetings!
The PC I bought from ebay arrived today and is tested to function. I also bought a modded K6-2+ that has the extra cache enabled and is now a k6-III+ and the seller said that under the right circumstances, can get up to 600-633MHz. The idea is to have a system that can run as fast as I can get it whilst being able to easily slow it down to play games from The Golden Age. The motherboard is a DFI VIA MVP3. The heatsink and fan on the K6-2 500 that came with the motherboard is very small and the fan sounds a little ratty. I don't have a lot of options on hand for swapping that out, at the moment. Mostly Phenom and up heatsinks. I do have a passive heatsink on a Dell Pentium 3 that looks like it may fit. It looks like Socket A options may potentially fit. It is difficult to say because there is a row of caps on one side, and a row of 3 caps + a dipswitch on the other side. I have MX-4 on hand as my only CPU-spooge option. I read that the K6-plus line runs cooler than the non-plus CPUs.
Since my options are limited at the moment, will this little heatsink/fan that was cooling a non-plus K6-2 500 be fine for now? Are there any recommended cooling options for a K6-III+ on a DFI VIA MVP3? Should I use this MX-4, and if so, how much? Is there anything I need to know about getting this CPU to 600-633Mhz on this particular motherboard? Is the meaning of life, 42? Will it be hilarious to run an otherwise currently unused Voodoo5 on this set up for FSAA, 32-bit, DVD playback, and using the Windows 3.11 SVGA patch?
Many thanks, as always!
Scythifuge