Re: Processor speed

I will have an AMD500 K6-2 (IIRR), ATX motherboard, and possibly some RAM available in about 2 weeks. I'm in east Mesa. If that helps.

I am running Fedora Core 5 on this AMD500 / 384Mb RAM and 2 - 20Gig HD's. Running X right out of the box is ok.

With a little tuning I think it could rock!

Unless your project is to get the 100Mhz sys running.

Michael Havens <bmike101@cox.net> wrote: lshw says that my hd is 38 GB and that my processor is clocked to 100Mhz.
It also says that the size of it is 500Mhz

      *-cpu
           description: CPU
           product: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
           vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
           physical id: 4
           bus info: cpu@0
           version: 5.8.12
           slot: Socket 7
           size: 500MHz
           width: 32 bits
           clock: 100MHz
           capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8  
pge mmx syscall 3dnow k6_mtrr

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:48:47 -0700, JT Moree
wrote:

> > Michael Havens wrote:
>> I know overclocking the processor is bad but I was thinking that it
>> might
>> be underclocked. How do I see this?
> not neccessarily bad. not needed with modern systems being rather but
> some people just like to push the limits.
>
>> things are slugish. Perhaps I should overclock the processor since I
>> rarely start those pss and things would start quicker thereby reducing
>> the
>> use of the processor. What do you think about this idea?
>
> since you have a k6-3 i don't recommend overclocking. Those procs were
> already clocked pretty high bc amd was playing catch-up with intel.
>
> I do agree with other posters about the bus. get the bus speed up as
> high as you can where the system is stable. Some of the k6 cpus even
> used 75Mhz and 83Mhz bus speeds as a standard. That's about as high as
> you can hope for. What's your processor speed?
>
> Be careful though, some systems and components from this era don't like
> running at those bus speeds.
>
> And get a faster hard drive if possible but that probably means spending
> money and that's a no go for this system. Better to put $$ towards a
> new one.
>
> And lastly you can always install gentoo so that you optimize code for
> k6 instead of running 386 code. How big is your hard drive?
>
> - --
> JT Morée
> PC Xperience, Inc.
> >



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