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AMD K6-II 550 any good?

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Chatterjee

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Hi,

I'd like to purchase an AMD-K6 II 550 and wanted to find out whether the chip is any good and what other chips it could compare to?

-S
 
its about as fast as a celeron 466 probably in business apps. Dont get it unless you are just upgrading a super7 board.
 
Like Hans said...consider purchasing it if you are looking to give that Super 7 mobo a couple of months more of life.

I have an FIC PA-2013 running the K6-2 550. For a time, I had a V3-2000 slapped on. It was alright in games but not spectacular. Great in running Win Apps, though. Problem is the chip is running full speed @ 550 while the offside 1MB L2 Cache on the PA-2013 is running only @ 100. Earlier K6-2s especially 300s and 350s were on par w/equivalent PII 300s and 350s. But as chip speeds increased, the motherboard L2 (either 512k, 1 or 2 MB) still stayed @ 100 Mhz. When the 2nd Generation of Celery chips came out (300A and up), they wiped the floor with the K6-2, in terms of overall performance (win apps and games).

Sorry for the history 😉

If you're building a NEW system, go for the Duron-based chips from AMD. This time around, these AMD chips wipe the floor with the Celeron II chips.
 
Gotta throw this into the pot...
If you have a mobo that will support it, (and the jury is still out on this one), then you might want to consider a a k6-2+ 500 from VegaPc. http://www.vegapc.com
I bought 3 of them, total price was 270 smackers, but I had to pay tax cuz I'm instate. You can have one shipped overnight for a little over 80 green, and VERY easily overclock to 600 Mhz. The K6-2+ FAR outperforms any other possible chip for the SS7 mobo's, but you pretty much have to be able to set jumpers on your mobo to 2X (AMD remaps this to 6X internally in the processor). Your board also has to be able to set the voltage down. I have mine at 2.1, and it quite simply kicks A$$~! Just my .02 worth. 😛
 
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