K6-III 433 Mhz 2.0V currently AU $56.00 reserve not met

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K6-III 433 Mhz 2.0V currently AU $56.00 reserve not met

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<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>I WAS interested in this, but what price does this guy want??<br><br>I am of the impression that even though it is a 2.0V mobile CPU it will be recognised as pure K6-3 and hence work on my mobo. Can anyone confirm that? <br><br>My mobo doesn't recognise III+ CPUs properly, so I can't use them.<br><br>I don't expect it will clock as high as the later III+ though.<br><br>Anyone have any experience with one of these? Possibly some OC results? <p></p><i></i>
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It will work. It's just an ordinary .25 micron K6-III that was tested and hand-picked by AMD because it was stable at 433 MHz at 2.0v.<br><br>You probably could run it at 500 MHz and 2.4v in a desktop system without missing a beat. All K6-III classic chips are within safe tolerance at 2.4. I doubt it would go to 550 like the plus chips do, that's pushing the .25 process too hard.<br><br>Unless it's plainly marked as a "III+" on the chip itself, it's a classic K6-III core. <p></p><i></i>
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It has hit AU$110!

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I guess that is the reserve price?<br><br>anyway for comparison here's a 1.3GHz Duron currently at ~AU$60<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>and at www.gamedude.com.au you can pick up a new athy XP for ~AU$110!<br><br>The prices people are willing to pay are quite rediculous. <p></p><i></i>
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To some people who don't want to plunk down the cash for a new PC or are afraid to replace the mobo, it might be worth it.<br><br>I still have my K6-III+ 450@550 up and running, and to be honest, for any business application and basic web surfing, it's every bit as fast as this Athlon XP. I wouldn't want to play recent games on it or anything A/V related and compare the two, but anything that can run out of the caches flies on a K6-III.<br><br>Those K6-III 333@392 boxes I built two years ago are still going strong and their owners are still very happy with them. One of them is even running XP now, faster than a P3-550 I worked on not too long ago. <p></p><i></i>
FIC VA-503+, Rev. 1.2, AMD K6-III+ 450@550MHz, 80GB Seagate ATA-100, 3dfx Voodoo3 3500 TV, TB Montego II Quadzilla, Win98se, 384MB PC100

Compaq Presario 1273, AMD K6-III+ 450@400MHz 1.8v, 40GB Samsung 5400RPM, extremely hacked Win98SE, 288 (yes, 288!) MB RAM
(Also an AMD FX-8350, which does the heavy lifting these days...)
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Well that doesn't count for the guy that's bidding. Look at his previous auctions, looks like he was setting up from scratch almost. He overpaid for everything. More money than sense if you ask me. <p></p><i></i>
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He seems to be from US, so why the hell didn't he by a K6 from there, he could have it at half the cost. <p></p><i></i>
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jsc were those 333's 2.2V?<br><br>could they go any higher? <p></p><i></i>
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They were 2.2v K6-III 333 classic chips. Every one of them tested good at 400 MHz and two of them would even run at 450, but needed 2.6v to run at that speed. Since I was going for stability, I backed them off to 2.4v and tried them at 3.5*112 to see if the components could handle the higher FSB. Every one of them passed at that setting, and they're still going strong two years later.<br><br>Configuration was as follows:<br><br>AMD K6-III 333@392, FIC VA-503+ mobo, GlobalWin FOP32, 128MB PC100 SDRAM. They either had V3's or MX video cards in them, and I think I used a few AWE64's and a few ESS soundcards. All of them had a Maxtor 91728D8 17.2GB hard disk, which I had discovered to be by far the best ATA33 drive you could buy.<br><br>One of the machines is at a girlfriend's house so I still see it a lot. That one's been upgraded to 384MB of RAM and has a CD burner in it now, but everything else is as I built it. I'm surprised even now at how capable it is.<br><br>Most K6-III 333 chips seem to me to be ordinary 2.4v 400 MHz cores that were just remarked by AMD as 333 and 2.2v to meet a lower price point. I've never seen one that can't do 400, and only one that needed 2.5 for a stable 400 MHz. <p></p><i></i>
FIC VA-503+, Rev. 1.2, AMD K6-III+ 450@550MHz, 80GB Seagate ATA-100, 3dfx Voodoo3 3500 TV, TB Montego II Quadzilla, Win98se, 384MB PC100

Compaq Presario 1273, AMD K6-III+ 450@400MHz 1.8v, 40GB Samsung 5400RPM, extremely hacked Win98SE, 288 (yes, 288!) MB RAM
(Also an AMD FX-8350, which does the heavy lifting these days...)
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It went for AU$127.50 if anyone is interested. <p></p><i></i>
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