And really not that overclockable?! Sheesh! Alright so it's maybe a little more overclockable than my Cyrix (233 to 262.5), going from 350 to 412.5. But the FPU is absolutely horrible, and I am saying that coming from the Cyrix! My frames are hardly any better than they used to be... I am 150MHz higher than I was before, and I "have 3DNow!", and I'm not getting a monstrous FPS gain?
I remember playing UT when I brought my tower to my cousin's house (who has a P3-450/192MB/TNT2 M64). I had the Cyrix then. He had a 14" for my system, but it still did 1024x768, so I used it. I played in 1024x768 the whole time, with all the eye candy on. And this was on a Cyrix. Now, obviously I wasn't blazing along at 150fps, but it was playable enough for me to enjoy a couple hours of gaming.
My system specs are 96MB PC66 and Banshee on a VA-503+ with Quantum LM hd. The only thing different now is I have a 412.5MHz K6-2 as opposed to the 262.5Mhz Cyrix. Both used/use 75MHz FSB to obtain that setting.
Now why is it I find it impossible to play unless I use 640x480 with lowest settings?! :| :| :|
Sorry for the rant-ish post... This sort of just gets to me a bit.
Also another thing about the K6-2 at 412.5, it's not 100% stable I dont' think. I thought it was, cuz it never crashed and I played hours of 3d gaming, etc. But I read the thread about that guy's computer crashing "because" of the "virus" RC5. Well, I set up RC5 and everything seemed fine, so I'm thinking "great, it's nice and stable". Well, before the day's up, Win2K reboots by itself (it has a setting to do that upon failure I believe).
I thought OK, sh1t happens, maybe that was just a quirk. It happened again the next day (while RC5 running). Now I've quit running RC5 and so far it's not crashing anymore... And I've also disabled the automatic reboot "feature".
I guess my system was never as stable as I assumed it to be. Maybe I should up the voltage a little more? I forget what it's at, but I think it's using 2.4 volts (2.2 volts default). I know voltage is a dangerous thing to screw around with, but I ran this at 2.9v a bit, and thought I had fried it, but did not. 2.9 up from 2.2 seems a bit extreme to me, I'm glad I didn't damage it (this was when I was first setting it up and forgot to change the voltage that the Cyrix used - 2.9).
So, anybody who has K6-2s, if you have any advice or suggestions, tips or patches for anything.. Let me know, please. I could run Rain, but it doesn't seem to work under Win2K for me, and that's my main OS (WinME just sucks too much for me, but again could be my overclocking).
Does 35-40fps in UT with absolute lowest settings sound right?! Sounds a little low to me...
Thanks for any input,
-RSI
I remember playing UT when I brought my tower to my cousin's house (who has a P3-450/192MB/TNT2 M64). I had the Cyrix then. He had a 14" for my system, but it still did 1024x768, so I used it. I played in 1024x768 the whole time, with all the eye candy on. And this was on a Cyrix. Now, obviously I wasn't blazing along at 150fps, but it was playable enough for me to enjoy a couple hours of gaming.
My system specs are 96MB PC66 and Banshee on a VA-503+ with Quantum LM hd. The only thing different now is I have a 412.5MHz K6-2 as opposed to the 262.5Mhz Cyrix. Both used/use 75MHz FSB to obtain that setting.
Now why is it I find it impossible to play unless I use 640x480 with lowest settings?! :| :| :|
Sorry for the rant-ish post... This sort of just gets to me a bit.
Also another thing about the K6-2 at 412.5, it's not 100% stable I dont' think. I thought it was, cuz it never crashed and I played hours of 3d gaming, etc. But I read the thread about that guy's computer crashing "because" of the "virus" RC5. Well, I set up RC5 and everything seemed fine, so I'm thinking "great, it's nice and stable". Well, before the day's up, Win2K reboots by itself (it has a setting to do that upon failure I believe).
I thought OK, sh1t happens, maybe that was just a quirk. It happened again the next day (while RC5 running). Now I've quit running RC5 and so far it's not crashing anymore... And I've also disabled the automatic reboot "feature".
I guess my system was never as stable as I assumed it to be. Maybe I should up the voltage a little more? I forget what it's at, but I think it's using 2.4 volts (2.2 volts default). I know voltage is a dangerous thing to screw around with, but I ran this at 2.9v a bit, and thought I had fried it, but did not. 2.9 up from 2.2 seems a bit extreme to me, I'm glad I didn't damage it (this was when I was first setting it up and forgot to change the voltage that the Cyrix used - 2.9).
So, anybody who has K6-2s, if you have any advice or suggestions, tips or patches for anything.. Let me know, please. I could run Rain, but it doesn't seem to work under Win2K for me, and that's my main OS (WinME just sucks too much for me, but again could be my overclocking).
Does 35-40fps in UT with absolute lowest settings sound right?! Sounds a little low to me...
Thanks for any input,
-RSI