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Whats NewComming Soon! Cliffs Guide to the Athlon and Duron line of AMD Processors.
Sorry for the lack of updates everyone most of the links here are still ok, so I'll leave the page up.
Look for an update sometime this month!
The AMD-K6®-III processor with 3DNow!(TM) technology is the ultimate sixth-generation processor for home PC enthusiasts and business power users. The AMD-K6-III processor combines 3DNow! technology with AMD's new TriLevel Cache design to deliver exceptional performance on leading business and consumer software applications. The key to this enhanced performance is our innovative TriLevel Cache design, which provides the largest total system cache for desktop PCs-more than four times the size of other competing system designs.
Amd is still the leader in value priced CPU's, The top of the line K6-III 450Mhz is
$160.00 cheaper than a Pentium 3 450Mhz and 10-30% faster.
Find out more from AMD Here
Buy it! at TCWI
5/12/99 Check these fantastic prices on K6-2 processors; 350Mhz for $58.00 K6-2 Blowout at TCWI
2/02/99 AMD introduced three new K6-2 processors for desktop PCs. The chips are available now, running at clock speeds of 400MHz, 380MHz and 366MHz. More on these later.
Upgrading Older Systems
To AMD's K6-2 Processor with 3DNow! Technology
2/20/99 AMD to roll out K6-III chip
The boost in performance for the K6-III comes from the introduction of a 256KB secondary, integrated cache. Cache memory acts as a data reservoir for the processor core and in general improves performance.
The K6-3 will clearly outperform the Pentium II at the same clock speed due to the addition of 256K L2 cache running at processor speed. You can greatly benefit from upgrading your current Socket 7/Super 7 processor to a K6-3. You will definitely receive impressive performance out of this processor.
AMD, in fact, is claiming that a 400-MHz K6-III with the 2MB of third level cache will outperform a 500-MHz Pentium III.
PC ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY ANNOUNCES INCREASED COMMITMENT TO AMD'S 3DNow!(TM) TECHNOLOGY
These twelve publishers and developers announced today plans to deliver a substantial number of titles that will offer optimized performance when used in conjunction with AMD's latest processors. Included in the significant number of future titles are: Tomb Raider III, Quake III Arena, Daikatana, Loose Cannon, Drakken, Striker, Slave Zero, Messiah, Duke Nukem Forever, and Descent3. These 3DNow! optimized titles will deliver an enhanced gaming experience on systems using an AMD-K6®-2, AMD-K6-III, or AMD-K7(TM) processor.
All of the top graphic accelerator developers including 3Dfx, ATI, Matrox, and nVidia are shipping optimizations for the 3DNow! technology in their 3D graphics accelerator drivers. 3DNow! technology is also supported in Microsoft's DirectX 6.x application programming interface (API), as well as the OpenGL graphics development standard developed by Silicon Graphics. Applications written to the DirectX 6.x API seamlessly take advantage of 3DNow! technology to enable fast geometry processing power which enhances gameplay.
3DNow! technology has also been incorporated into non-gaming applications such as IBM's ViaVoice, Live Art 98, Total Home 3D Deluxe and a number of PC DVD players. 3DNow! implementations have resulted in faster voice recognition, better quality images, faster rendering times with better lighting, and soft DVD playback in PCs at lower system price points.
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This page is for users of the K6 family of microprocessors. I recently purchased a K6-266 and had to do a lot of searching to get all the information I needed to setup and run this chip. There is a lot of good information out their. So I thought it might be nice if one could find all the info in one place. So lets get started.
AMD-K6 Windows 95 Patch
When you are starting Windows95 OSR2, OSR2.1, or OSR2.5 on a
computer with an AMD-K6-2 processor running at speeds of 350
MHz and above, you may receive one of the following error
messages: Device IOS failed to initialize, or Windows Protection
Error." Here is the fix from Microsoft.
K6-2up Patch
Details Here
The First thing you need to do is find your motherboard manual and see if the following things are true. You should also check the link above "AMD Recommended Motherboards" They have Links to all the major manufactures. If your motherboard is not listed don't worry their may be another solution. Email me for details!
| Split Voltage | Your board must support CPUs with Split Voltage ie; Pentium MMX, K6, Cyrix |
| Low Voltage | The K6-266, 300,(3D now)K6 2-266, 300, 350 All Require 2.2V |
| Bus Frequency's | Options are 66, 75 ,83, 95, 100, 112 |
| Bus Multiplters | 1 - 5.5 (these depend on the Frequency used) |
If your board passes then lets move on. If your board does not pass you may want to check out a Powerleap CPU upgrade.
In the Standard Setup we will find the AMD recommended settings
| CPU | Bus Freq. | Bus Mult |
|---|---|---|
| K6-266 | 66Mhz | X 4 |
| K6-300 | 66Mhz | X 4.5 |
| K6 2-266 | 66Mhz | X 4 |
| K6 2-300 | 100Mhz | X 3 |
| K6 2-333 | 66Mhz | X 5 |
| K6 2-350 | 100Mhz | X 3.5 |
This is what most people can expect from their chip with a standard heat sink and fan
| CPU | 266Mhz | 300Mhz | 333Mhz | 350Mhz | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K6-266 | 66x4 | 66x4.5 | 66x5 | no | 75x4, 75x4.5, 100x2.5, 100x3 |
| K6-300 | no | 66x4.5 | 75x4.5 | no | 100x3 |
| K6 2-266 | 66x4, 100x2.5 | 100x3, 95x3 | 66x5 | no | no |
| K6 2-300 | no | 100x3 | 95x3.5 | no | 66X4.5,66X5 |
| K6 2-333 | no | 95x3, 100x3 | 66x5 | 100x3.5 | no |
| K6 2-350 | no | no | no | 100x3.5 | 95x4/?,100x4/? |
AMD Home page
The AMD Cool Stuff
page
Anand's Hardware Tech Page -
AMD K6 Reviews
Ace's Hardware
JC's PC News 'n' Links - Updated At Least Once A Day!
ASUS Links
AMD/K6-300.html
this table for AMD K6-300Mhz CPU
AMD/K6-266.html
this table for AMD K6-266Mhz CPU
AMD/K6-2-300.html
this table for AMD K6-2-300Mhz CPU
Kalle's ASUS T2P4 Page
Dougs T2P4_K6 Page
This post helped me out:
Been running my ASUS TXP4 with a K6-266 oc'd to 333 for a few months now. No problems.
Voltage = 2.2... vid0, no connection...vid1, 1.2 jumper...vid2, no connection.
BF2 must be jumpered 2,3 if you don't have the BF2 pins then see Kalle's web site, the procedure's the same for the TXP4 as what he's done on the T2P4. Or try Doug's wire method.
Once you've got the BF2 taken care of, the bus frequency ratio's are as follows:
4.0x...BF0...2,3...BF1...1,2
4.5x...BF0...2,3...BF1...2,3
5.0x...BF0...1,2...BF1...2,3
5.5x...BF0...1,2...BF1...1,2
The only thing left is up dating the BIOS. From what I understand this only changes what your chip is recognized as during the boot process. Before I flashed my bias the chip was shown as an "AMD-266 generic" during boot, but still gave me the increase in speed.
I'm running the beta BIOS 111-6
ftp://ftp.ASUS.com.tw/pub/ASUS/BIOS/BETA/INDEX.txt
Make sure you get the right one for your board. I flashed the BIOS for another board once and wound up hot swapping chips to recover ;-(
My settup used to run at 75Mhz the only change was the new cpu and now I can't seem to get beyond 66. But that's OK since the whole settup is working fine at 333 for a while now, not bad for a 266 chip.
