K6-3 433 or K6-2 500

DieHardware

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I'm building a dirt cheap pc, out of these two choices(has to be one of these two) which do you think will perform better? I will be using an Asus P5S-VM(SIS 530 chipset) motherboard. Used for office apps, lite photoshop, surfing/email, older games(quake etc) and watching DVDs through a Creative DXR2 mpeg2 card. Thanks for any input.
 

DimZiE

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from what i remember... K6-3 performs slightly better than the k6-2 in quake1...
even it's at lower clockspeed... (you can o/c it anyway if your mobo support FSB adjustment a bit above the standard FSB)

i don't know about playing DVD's tho' coz back then i haven't got a DVD drive
 

Pederv

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Here are some Winbench 99 CPU scores that I have:
K6-2-550 - 32.5
K6-2+-550 - 47.8
K6-3-450 - 50.8
K6-3-500 - 55.2

FPU Scores:
K6-2-550 - 1800
K6-3-450 - 1510
All tests were done on the same system, just swapped out the cpu.

I used to use the DXR2 card. The only thing I didn't like about it was that it degraded the regular PC video.

I have the kid setup with a K6-2+-550 and an ATI Rage128. She browses the web and once in a great while does here homework and watches DVD's. Plenty of memory (256MB or more) makes a big difference in photoshop.
 

DieHardware

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Thanks guys....Pederv thanks for the benchmark info.:) Oh and Pederv did you ever get the DXR running in win2k?(tried the nt drivers, no dice)
 

Rand

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Generally the K6-3 is roughly equivalent to a K602 of 100MHz higher clock, though that can vary considerably depending upon the applications in use and the amount of cache on the motherboard.
 

ledzepp98

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i don't recall a k6-3 433 (only 400 and 450 ?) but in general the on-die cache of the k6-3 should help a lot with any business app or photoshop type program. if you already have those two cpu's, i would definately go with the k6-3