Looking for K6-2+

[ViralCryption]

Anybody find a place on the Net selling them? I checked pricewatch and I didn't see anything.

 

[esquared]

Do you want a 2+ specifically or would a 3+ suffice? I think www.softwareandstuff.com has 3+'s for 64.95. The bios of a board that recognizes a 2+ should recognize the 3+.

 

[ViralCryption]

Actually I was trying to find a K6-2+ because I heard that it performed better and was available at higher speeds.

 

[esquared]

Actually the 2+ is slower than the 3+ and the 3+ easily gets to 550 at overclock and some get 600 or 616. The 2+ might not go that high. Also the 3+ has 256 kb of onboard L2 cache and the 2+ has only 128. Check out cpu scorecard for benchmarks. A K6-3+ 550 has a benchmark of 1405
and a 550 K6-2+ has a benchmark of 1272. Just my 2 cents.

cpuscorecard

 

[Hanky]

But for the most applications the pure presence and speed of L2-Cache is more important than its size so if there is a certain amount of K6-X+ CPUs with various clockspeeds the fastest overall CPU of this amount would definitely be the one with the most MHz (no matter whether it's a K6-2+ or a K6-III+).

 

[chucky2]

ViralCryption- Your going to want to head on over to the K6-X Forum at SlotA. I think it's pretty safe to say that they are the best source for info on how the -x+ series of processors are running on Desktop systems.

You definitely want to go with the -3+ CPU. Most people are getting at least 550MHz out of them, and that's at the default Vcore. 600MHz seems to be easy with decent cooling and maybe a Vcore bump to 2.1-2.2.

Just to warn you: I think that AMD says the MAX Vcore for the -x+ series of CPU's is 2.2, so I wouldn't go exceeding that unless your willing to pay the price. Just thought I'd warn you.

AcesHardware had a review of the K6-2+ processor a little while back. Basically, it showed that a (regular) K6-3 at 500MHz was about as fast as a K6-2+ at 600MHz. Now, given that a K6-3+ will perform the same as a regular K6-3, then I'd say that the best option for you would be a K6-3+ 450 (I think there may be K6-3+ 475's out there though).

Hope this helps you some!

Good Luck!

 

[radman3d2]

TigerDirect.com has the K6-2+ 450 and I think for a very good price. I believe it was $45 + $9.99 shipping. TigerDirect.com

 

[chriscraft]

Just for clarification, the link that Chunky postedabove, brings you too "SlotA", and when you click on the BBS link, it takes you to the "AMDZONE" forums, which is what I was going to suggest..

Chunky is correct about the K6-X topic in this forum being the most knowledgeable around..

To give credit where it's due...it's the AMDZONE.COM...then link to "BBS" at top of home page

 

[chucky2]

chriscraft- OK, you got me.

I have err'd, the BBS is run by AMDZone.



Chuck

 

[ViralCryption]

Cool, thanks. I must have miss read somewhere because I thought the k6-2+ had the 256 of cache, good looking out guys.