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Grex Micros Item 179: P200MMX vs. K6?
Entered by pablo on Thu Nov 13 13:43:08 UTC 1997:




Hi to everybody!

I have hand-made P100 and plan to upgrade. There are two considerable
alternatives: P200MMX and K6-PR2-200. Heard that K6 has better price/quality
value, but scared of incompatible stuff.

If someone runs K6, please describe Your feelings 'bout it.

Thanks in advanse,
Pablo

9 responses total.

#1 of 9 by arthurp on Sun Nov 16 02:07:07 1997:

I run the K5 in Linux.  It is a great chip.  I expect the same of the
K6, but I don't have any first hand experience.

Floating point is not as good as Intel, but integer is better.

#2 of 9 by wolfg676 on Sat Apr 11 10:25:40 1998:

I think I'm going to have to "borrow" an idea from Scott's setname and start
calling myself the "glassy-eyed AMD evangelist. :)

I've been running a K6 since December, and I have no complaints. I recommend
K6 CPUs to anyone who asks. (no I don't sell them, so I have no monetary
intrests in AMD. but it wouldn't hurt if they offered...)
I run a K6-233MHz with a FIC Apollo PA-2007 motherboard with 1MB of L2 cache,
96MB RAM, Win95 OSR2.1, and it performs beautifully. Quake, Quake II, GLHexen,
and pretty much anything else flies on it. I could email anyone Wintune97
benchmark info if they want it. I could go on, but I'll direct you to
http://www.amd.com for more info. They'll tell you much more about their
chips.

#3 of 9 by arthurp on Thu Apr 16 01:59:50 1998:

I now have the K6 233 as well.  Very nice.  I had to go this way because
I can't stand Intel's scheme involving slot1/slot2.  They suck.

#4 of 9 by dang on Fri Apr 17 17:19:44 1998:

(I have a dual processer PII 300 and it's faster than anything I've ever seen
outside of an alpha.  It *really* screams.)
(So don't tell me that intel can't make fast hardware.  This computer has the
ultraSparcs I've used beat.)

#5 of 9 by arthurp on Sat Apr 18 05:37:44 1998:

I didn't mean they suck technically, although...

#6 of 9 by dang on Sun Apr 19 01:39:57 1998:

(Well, I don't know anything else about Intel than the hardware, which I
use extensively. :)  Then too, I don't know anything else than Motorolla
than the hardware. )

#7 of 9 by ball on Thu Nov 12 16:18:28 2015:

    The other day I recycled a box of CPUs that I had been
hoarding for no readily-discernable reason. In amongst those
was my 450 MHz AMD K6-II+, which went into my primary
desktop machine during its "mid life refresh". It replaced a
225 MHz Cyrix MII.  They both worked well with NetBSD.

#8 of 9 by kentn on Sat Nov 14 00:25:46 2015:

Haven't heard of Cyrix processors in a long while.  I used to have a
CPU like that in one of my computers (probably slower than yours, like
80 MHz).  Between AMD and Intel, they largely chased the smaller CPU
companies out of business, I guess.

#9 of 9 by ball on Sat Nov 14 01:16:13 2015:

    VIA (who ate Cyrix and WinChip) have managed to cling on
by targetting embedded applications and adding things like
hardware random number generators and some cryptographic
functions.  I was a bit surprised to learn that they were
still around.

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