If you buy something through eBay links below we may earn a small commission.
This will not cost you extra, and it will help us to keep the forum
operational and ad-free.
| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
gshv
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Posts: 7898
Location: Fairfax, VA USA
|
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Simmayor
Joined: 23 Apr 2003
Posts: 328
Location: Deventer Ov, The Netherlands
|
 Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 4:48 pm Post subject: |
 |
|
 Wow! This is a really strange CPU. What was AMD thinking when they released this odd speed? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
gshv
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Posts: 7898
Location: Fairfax, VA USA
|
| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 6:12 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Simmayor wrote: | | What was AMD thinking when they released this odd speed? |
They were thinking 95 MHz x 6  If they released K6-2 with bus speed multiplier 6 it means they could produce AMD K6-2 600, at least they could have engineering samples of K6-2 600...
Gennadiy |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
CPUShack
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
Posts: 34259
Location: State of Jefferson, USA
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Trogdor
Joined: 26 Mar 2003
Posts: 166
Location: Denver, Colorado
|
| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 4:41 am Post subject: |
|
|
Very interesting/cool; no doubt that the end price for the two (there are two listed) will each be in triple digits. 380 MHz (95 x 4) is another interesting AMD clock speed; I found around 7 to 10 (some K6-2, some K6-III) on eBay currently. Why did AMD decide to use 95 MHz instead of 100 for bus speed?
I vaguely remember seeing eMachines (or similar) computers with 380 MHz AMD chips advertised in the Best Buy Sunday newspaper inserts a few years back; I remember thinking that it was an odd clock speed  . I've never heard of 570 MHz chips.
Why are K6-2's often faster than K6-III's?
_________________
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
vmunix
Joined: 26 Feb 2003
Posts: 6
Location: Buenos Aires
|
| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 1:56 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Quote: | | Why are K6-2's often faster than K6-III's? |
I think the reason is the Leve2 cache, the K6-III at 450Mhz already produced a lot of heat, more than K6-2@450Mhz, besides, more transistor count (like K6-III) higher the defective rate at factory is, so it's easier to produce with reasonable success K6-2@550 etc.
_________________
A computer without Windows is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
- Elfer |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
CPUShack
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
Posts: 34259
Location: State of Jefferson, USA
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
![[ Hidden ]](https://cdn.cpu-world.com/forum/templates/CPUWorld/images/lang_english/icon_email.gif "[ Hidden ]"){kind=icon}
