I'm not much of a hardware guy ... I'm not sure about swapping CPU's. From the prior posts it seems you may have the AMD500 k6-2. Maybe all you need is to bump up your RAM.
How much RAM do you have now?
The Mobo/CPU have served me well. Had an identical box that bit the dust about a month ago. I think it was the power supply.
It will be several weeks though before I can part with it, if that is OK.
It's the Mobo and RAM ... I need to keep the HD's.
Keith
Michael Havens <
bmike101@cox.net> wrote: I'm in West Mesa. What could I do with
this stuff? Build a new board? Or will this processor/ram fit in this
board?? Whatever the outcome of this is I really appreciate the offer!
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:13:48 -0700, keith smith
wrote:
> 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 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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