I just recently bought a K6-3 350 for a whopping $130. I swore to myself that I would wait for the K7 to come out, but at that price, how could I wait? Considering I already had a cheapy motherboard that would hold a K6-2. And, using Linux as I do, had a wonderful chance to simply crank up the multiplier and make my 350 a 400. Linux uses the HLT funtions to shutdown parts of the CPU not being used so the heat it non existant, even with the factory installed heat sink and fan. I'm keeping a close eye on it though. I just got a cushy new computer job so I've been spending money left and right against my "better" judgement. Running 3 systems now, a K6-2 350 Linux box, a P100 Linux box and a P133 Winblows box. This was going to make a nice in home network until I found out I couldn't get cable in my new apartment. What use is a network when you have a 4K/s internet feed? Oh well. I'll shutup now. Ren West --- Michael Perry <mperry@znet.com> wrote:
I decided after stumbling into a small cash windfall to buy some new system components that I could use to still keep my older P166 classic system running. I wanted a scsi system again since it seems faster and without some limitations. I could not afford the higher level scsi drives so settled for a quantum fireball 8.4 gig drive which seems quite nice. I also went for a AMD K6 II 400, ASUS motherboard, full tower case, 128mb of memory, and a Matrox Millenium G200 card with 16mb of memory. I had some second thoughts about the hard disk media but will have to wait and see. I got a quite good deal on two of them and had a budget for this stuff to consider.
So all told the new system is:
AMD K6 II 400 128mb of memory Matrox Mill. G200 16mb card Adaptec 2940 UW atapi 40x or so cd rom 2x8.4 Quantum Fireball scsi drives
So anyone using the K6 hereabouts? Any experiences you care to relate?
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