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by georgep1
Sun Feb 29, 2004 1:45 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: Removed
Replies: 19
Views: 15356

Re: locked

You can get mobile Bartons that are unlocked, and they apparently overclock like crazy.
by georgep1
Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:18 am
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: K6-2 500 vs K6-3 400 and more
Replies: 23
Views: 14298

re: faster

Generally, the K6-III will be faster, even at 80 MHz slower speeds. The on-die L2 cache makes a big difference in many applications. It will definitely feel "snappier" in many things. Also, depending on how much RAM your motherboard L2 cache can cache, the on-die L2 cache of the K6-III can...
by georgep1
Sat Feb 21, 2004 8:11 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: looking for best Detonator for Ti-4200?
Replies: 2
Views: 3559

Re: Ti4200

Would love to give you advice on the best drivers for the Ti4200, but my experience with nvidia on super7 only goes up to a GF3, for which 12.90 was best overall, at least til I stopped trying at Detonator 3x.xx. Don't think that 12.90 supports a GF4 series card. With super7, I'd benchmark the 4x.xx...
by georgep1
Tue Feb 17, 2004 5:36 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: your top 4 games for your k6-2/3
Replies: 53
Views: 35110

Re: GF3

Yep, it worked great in my Epox MVP3G5. It was also natively supported by the 12.90 drivers, which were the last drivers that did really good on the MVP3 chipset. Later ones would do well in some games, but 12.90 did well in nearly all games. That said, I haven't tried drivers 40 and above with the ...
by georgep1
Sun Feb 15, 2004 10:53 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: Gigabyte GA586-TX2 works with K6-III+
Replies: 10
Views: 8077

Re: old school

Cool. Glad you got it to work. It's fun to upgrade an old mobo to much better performance than was ever envisioned when it was developed. Since you're probably not going to use the mobo, maybe you won't want to do this, but there is a site (Russian) that has a bios patcher that will enable full reco...
by georgep1
Sat Feb 14, 2004 3:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Strange doings with account?!
Replies: 2
Views: 4239

Re: okay

No worries Nohr. Just wondering. Looking at it again, my sig is gone as well.
by georgep1
Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Strange doings with account?!
Replies: 2
Views: 4239

Strange doings with account?!

Over the last several days, I noted that the time of the posts in this forum were "off" when I viewed them, i.e. they were dated in the future. Today I checked the "My Account" link and my time zone was set to GMT+6 instead of GMT-6. Also, it had my old e-mail address in it, when...
by georgep1
Tue Feb 10, 2004 7:32 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: L2/L3 cache not enabled. Where can I find cacheonw.exe?
Replies: 11
Views: 6870

Re: L2 cache missing

That motherboard should automatically have L2 cache enabled for that processor. It's possible Aida simply was not programmed to look for cache off the processor. I don't have a K6-2 right now so I can't test it, but you could try SiSoft Sandra or CPU-Z. However, they might also not recognize the L2 ...
by georgep1
Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:10 am
Forum: Software & Tweaking
Topic: K6Speed and XP - what's the go?
Replies: 4
Views: 5946

re: XP

It has something to do with the location of where it was installed at. There is a info in the readme about WinNT and Win2K and the requirements for directory location and registry keys and uninstalling.
by georgep1
Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:57 pm
Forum: Software & Tweaking
Topic: getting k6wc to work
Replies: 4
Views: 6117

Re: k6wc

I never really tried that write combine program. In order to enable/enhance write combine, I ran CPUCool which gave that option, then ran CTU after CPUCool enabled write combining and captured those settings for startup. Found out it helped with the Voodoo3/4s I used to have, but not with GeForce ty...
by georgep1
Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:46 pm
Forum: Software & Tweaking
Topic: Enable All + Functions Any Win OS
Replies: 2
Views: 4871

Re: Enable All + Functions Any Win OS

Well most of the old regulars here were around when Uart of Uart's utilities, Rob Mueller of CTU, and Kyle Brant of K6Speed fame frequented here, or in the old K6 forum at www.amdzone.com They were regulars back in the 2000/2001 timeframe when the 2+ and III+ came out and were big topics of conversa...
by georgep1
Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:31 pm
Forum: Software & Tweaking
Topic: "+" model not recognized in BIOS at startup
Replies: 5
Views: 6797

Re: "+" model not recognized in BIOS at startup

Hello, The non + lacks the on die L256 cache as well which is a huge difference in preformance. What the bios reads doesn't necassarily mean anything. Check it with any cupid and you'll know if your getting all the functions, caches and clock speed. Here is a good one specially for II+/III+ that ha...
by georgep1
Tue Jan 20, 2004 10:32 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: your top 4 games for your k6-2/3
Replies: 53
Views: 35110

Re: 3DMark

For the high scores, I run at 6x103. My high score with the 8500 is 3660. The TX97-XE still runs nice, but I keep the CPU at 450. It runs all day at 500, but there were occasional unexplained HD corruption problems at 83 MHz FSB. So I clocked it down. I still play HL, Q2 and their single player mods...
by georgep1
Mon Jan 19, 2004 4:30 pm
Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
Topic: your top 4 games for your k6-2/3
Replies: 53
Views: 35110

Re: games and stuff

I put the 9500Pro in my Epox and got about 4200 in 3DMark2001. 3DMark2003 wouldn't complete.
by georgep1
Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:16 pm
Forum: Software & Tweaking
Topic: Linux MandrakeMove
Replies: 3
Views: 5518

Re: Linux

Sure, there was quite a bit of talk a while back about people experimenting with Linux on their K6 systems. I was running RH9 on mine in dual boot with Win2K, and it ran fine, but when I went to a wireless NIC, it didn't have support for it. I'm sure there's a way around it, but I haven't worked too...