Upgrade from a AMD K6-2 350 to a 550?

[DieselUV]

Is it worth the $60 to upgrade? Or should I hold out to buy a new chip, mobo, etc...

Allan

 

[BA]

I wouldn't bother upgrading to a K6-2 550. Now, a K6-3 or a K6-3+, that will make much more difference than the K6-2 would.

 

[DieselUV]

Well, if I get a K6-3, then I'll have to get a new motherboard. So it's either a 550 chip or a new board and chip.

Allan

 

[sandorski]

Are you sure? What mobo do you have?

 

[Rapha]

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Is it worth the $60 to upgrade?
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No. You may overclock the K6-2 350 for few $ (thermal paste / additional case fan / CPU and heatsink lapping).

The K6-III is faster than the K6-2 550. If your board supports the K6-2 550, I don't understand why it can't support the K6-III line. (I am not speaking about the '+' line that often needs bios upgrade).

 

[stockjock]

If your motherboard supports voltage as low as 2v to 2.1v..then go to tigerdirect.com...they have some K6III+ 450 for something like $50. These chips will do 550 to 600 easily. I should know as I went and bought 4 of them and they are running great.

 

[Peter]

DieselUV,

a normal K6-III should run in any board capable of running a K6-2/550. I wouldn't go for the /550 however. The /500 is much cheaper, and not really slower. K6-2 performance does not scale very well up there, since the slow L2 cache at 100 MHz brakes it.

K6-III or K6-2+ with an additional level of cache running at full speed will improve things much more.

Now what mainboard do you have there?

Regards, Peter

 

[ledzepp98]

i would save your money. scrounge up another $100 and you could have a new mobo and duron 600 (a good, inexpensive mobo would be the epox ep-8kta+). i have nothing against the k6 line (i passed down a k6-3 450 to my mom last summer) but it's old news. with a new socket-a mobo and duron you have the ability of future upgrades up to a 1.2gig t-bird