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by jsc1973
Fri Apr 09, 2010 11:01 am
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: Does anybody know anything about the ATI 9800 All in Wonder
Replies: 9
Views: 10813

An AIW 9800 Pro has 128MB of DDR2 memory on board: http://ati.amd.com/products/radeon9800/aiw9800pro/index.html You would be able to use that card on just about any motherboard from the time of its release or later that has an AGP slot. Actually, I suspect it would work on any board that supports AG...
by jsc1973
Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:13 am
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: fastest super socket 7 mainboard?
Replies: 36
Views: 53908

Weird. I've had mine for more than 11 years, probably run it for 7-8 years during that time, and it's never had a problem. FIC made the board as late as 2001, I wonder if the last revisions may have gotten some of the bad Chinese capacitors that mobo manufacturers were using at the time? I've heard ...
by jsc1973
Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:33 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: fastest super socket 7 mainboard?
Replies: 36
Views: 53908

I think FIC sold every one they ever made. It was one of the very last Super 7 boards to remain in production. There are faster Super 7 boards, but it had three things going for it: 1) it supported FPM, EDO and SDRAM; 2) it could run RAM out of sync with FSB speed without losing stability or perform...
by jsc1973
Fri Feb 19, 2010 2:05 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: fastest super socket 7 mainboard?
Replies: 36
Views: 53908

You never could get me to build a Super Socket 7 system with anything but the FIC VA-503+. It was a pain to set all of the jumpers, but once you did, they ran stable as an Intel system with an Intel motherboard. You could even stick a K6-2 550 (a hot, unstable piece of crap that AMD never should hav...
by jsc1973
Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:54 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: K6-2 337AFR
Replies: 4
Views: 8546

I found a reference to the K6-2 337 as an IBM OEM part on another site. They seem to have been made from late 1998 to early 1999. IBM during that time made a lot of 75 MHz bus systems, mostly based on Cyrix 6x86/MII processors. IBM had a license to make Cyrix chips and sell them under their own name...
by jsc1973
Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:04 pm
Forum: Other Systems
Topic: ms-6530 "pentium 4" with ISA slot
Replies: 3
Views: 11514

Whoever came up with the NetBurst architecture should have been banned for life from any form of semiconductor design. Only Intel, with its manufacturing capabilities, could have succeeded with such a poor design, and only Intel, with its stubbornness, would have pushed it as far as they did when it...
by jsc1973
Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:49 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: K6-2 337AFR
Replies: 4
Views: 8546

AMD never officially released any K6 or K6-2 CPUs that were specified to run at a 75 MHz FSB. If you wanted to do so, you either ran an original K6 or an K6-2 AFR-66 out of spec, or you ran a Super 7 K6-2 below spec. That K6-2 337 is either a remark (although I don't see any signs of that) by someon...
by jsc1973
Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Where is everyone?
Replies: 52
Views: 106878

every once in a while...
by jsc1973
Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:20 am
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: Any performance diff between regular K6-III and K6-III+?
Replies: 10
Views: 12900

AMD actually announced a K6-III 500, but their yields on the parts were so poor that very few even saw the light of day. K6-III pretty much topped out at 450 MHz on the production facilities available, until the die-shrink made 500 and 550 possible. Never heard of a .25 micron K6-III making it even ...
by jsc1973
Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:44 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: K6-2 533 overclock question?
Replies: 43
Views: 38433

Any K6-2 running above 500 MHz is a factory overclock. Once you go above that, the chip might go just fine up to a point, but that's as far as it's going to go, no matter how much voltage you feed into it. I have even worked with K6-2 550 systems before that had random lockups and crashes for no app...
by jsc1973
Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:38 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: why BIOS update needed for K6-2+ but not K6-3?
Replies: 3
Views: 5501

The chips are misrecognized by the BIOS, typically being identified as a 486 or occasionally as a K5. Because the BIOS doesn't recognize the chip, it won't enable K6-specific features, and this has to be done in software after you boot up. This website: http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6pl...
by jsc1973
Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:33 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: where are the embedded K6+ ??
Replies: 9
Views: 12162

Every once in a while, you see one of these embedded chips for sale. The only difference between them and a standard K6-III+ is that they can run on less than 2.0 v, and were normally marked at 1.8 or 1.6v. Back around 2001, I heard of someone running a K6-III+ 550 1.8v chip at 672 MHz on 2.1v, but ...
by jsc1973
Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:32 am
Forum: Software & Tweaking
Topic: Are you Windows 7 ready ?
Replies: 3
Views: 10426

How well does Windows 7 work on a system like this? I have a copy of Win7 that I've never installed on anything, and I have a K6-III+ based system with plenty of RAM. Is it worth the effort to try this?
by jsc1973
Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:29 am
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: K6-2+ will not fit in ZIF super socket 7
Replies: 3
Views: 5911

I know what seller you are referring to, I have purchased three K6-2+ 550s from him recently for use in upgrading old Compaq laptops. I think he has a gazillion of these old parts. All three of them have worked well, but on one of the three, there was a slightly bent pin that kept the CPU from going...
by jsc1973
Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:45 am
Forum: General
Topic: This place is still going that awesome.
Replies: 22
Views: 48206

It's still a useful resource. You would be surprised how many old K6-2 based computers I still see in regular use. For just getting on the Internet or running Word, they still get the job done just fine. The two best laptops I have are both old K6-based systems that have received an upgrade to K6-2+...