Amd K6-2 450Mhz overheats with decent fan and thermal grease.

[TheScavenger]

Its always run slow and i cant for the life of me figure out why. Voltage is at 2.4 like the cpu says for it to be. I thought it was because the hard drive and cdrom were on the same cable. I/O speeds are slow like 1.7MB/sec max, and its CPU thats slowing it down. Its not even fit to like, surf the internet. Heat was at like 54c and then i greased it up but it didn't help. is there anything i should know about these cpus? Im not sure what board it is, i 'inherited' it.
Thanks!

 

[amdskip]

I'm not too familier with K6-2's (before I really got into computers) but what heatsink are you running?

 

[Lord Evermore]

What convinces you that the CPU is what's slowing down the drive speeds?

The temperature is fine, not sure why you sound so godawful afraid of the temperature and so sure that the heat is causing the slowness. What exactly does "greased it up" imply? Was there no thermal compound before, or did you put Arctic Silver on after cleaning off old silicone grease, or did you just rub some new stuff on regardless of what was there before?

What are you using to test the drive speeds? Is that the hard drive that's at 1.7MBps? What kind of drive is it, and what mode is it running in (PIO mode 4, 3, whatever; I doubt the board has UltraDMA).

You can find out what board it is by looking usually between the PCI or ISA slots, or along one of the edges, the model is usually silk-screened in one of those places. What operating system are you using? How much memory?

What exactly rates as "fit to surf the Internet"? What are you comparing it to?

 

[TheCorm]

What motherboard is it?

It probably does have UDMA-33, maybe even UDMA-66 if it was one of the very late Super 7 boards. Remember that if it is Windows 98 this needs to be turned on in the device manager. If it's Windows XP then don't expect it to run very fast ever, W2k would be okay on that machine. Does the motherboard have an on board "L3" cache memory, without this the K6-3 can't run as well but it should still be more than adequate to surf the web!!

Do you know what the fan is rated to?
K6-3's could get quite hot, 54c seems a bit hotter than I would have expected but well within specs.

If you can come back to us with the further info requested, we should be able to offer some further comments.

Corm