Pics of 'naked' K6-2,3,+s?

[razor1000]

I remember seeing several years ago, a picture of a K6-2 with the built-in heatspreader removed.

I tried removing the heatspreader once, but had no luck.

I was wondering if anyone has any pictures of K-6s, 2s, 3s, or the plus variants without their heatspreaders.

(Also, if you know an easy way to get them off, I would like to hear it!)

[CPUShack]

I froze it to get if off.


really high heat may work as well

[razor1000]

How did you freeze it?

Which one is that? A K6-2?

I wonder if those gold traces are for setting the multiplier? What was the original speed of that CPU?

[CPUShack]

K6-2 300

I stuck it in the freezer for a day

[CPUShack]

you could also use a razor knife (like an exacto) to cut the glue spots.

[razor1000]

Do you think that freeze-spray in a can would work? Supposedly it can get down to -50F.

[Minuteman]

It would be too expensive I think for that use lol I will get an open K6-III soon

[razor1000]

I was going to get the freeze-spray for something else, but I thought I could use it for this too... and then eliminate any damage caused by moisture...
come to think of it, I could just put it in a plastic bag first!

*CPUShack,
does your 300 still work?

I found this guy selling one on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3466425429&category=15921
There are lots more contacts closed on this one!

I'm very interested in learning if those contacts allow you to manually adjust the multi/voltage, like on the original Thunderbird Athlons/Spitfire Durons.

[CPUShack]

those contact SHOULD adjust the mult. Just make sure youadjust them with the right resistor value.


My 300 worked fine afterwards

[razor1000]

I wonder if one of the contacts enables/disables PowerNow on the plus variant.... like on Thoroughbred Athlons.

When I had my K6-2+ my board didn't support it, so it booted at a really low multi, and I had to change it via software. Even then it didn't work very well.

If you could turn off PowerNow and manually set the default multi higher you could just turn it into a 600Mhz K6-3 with half the cache.

Anybody know of a socket 7 board that supports a multi higher than 6?

[CPUShack]

No but most support a 112 or 124 FSB which would get ya there

5.5x112 = 616

[razor1000]

I WANT NATIVE 133FSB!!! (Is that too much to ask???)

[CPUShack]

LOL 112 is about all you can hope for
the chipsets are specced at 100 so you are OC'ing them alot.
Not to mention the PCI bus and AGP clock.

[razor1000]

I can't believe it's taken them this long to make boards with separate pci/fsb clocks!

Why would you want your pci at anything but 33.3Mhz???

It seems like AMD has finally got it figured out: I heard today that Athon64s are multi-locked only at multis HIGHER than one they ship with. But you can still LOWER the multi! That way nobody can re-label OC'd CPUs!

To celebrate they should make us all unlocked K6s!

[x86sniper]

Just have some free time today and decapped a defect k6-2+ 533ACZ

The die is even smaller than the k6-2 due to die shrunk. (0.18 micron)
(Don't forget powernow and 128kb cache inside!)

x86sniper