> As Rodney W. Grimes wrote ...
> > > On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Richard Tobin wrote:
> > >
> > > > > > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x580 Stepping=0
>
> > The original K6-2's off the line where all 100MHz parts, it was later when
> > AMD found that some people where sticking these in 66MHz boards and trying
> > to run them with a 66MHz FSB and having troubles that AMD started to test
> > the parts for 66MHz operation, they had to make some changes in the I/O
> > buffers and then qualify a new part number and those are the ones stamped 66.
> > Aka AMD 6K86-2-P300/66 vs AMD 6K86-2-P300/100 for those who know what a
> > real AMD part number is.
>
> Rod,
>
> Do I understand you correctly that I should get a 66Mc variant for my Asus
> T2P4 because a 100Mc is unlikely to work? Or are the newer 100Mc chips also
> coping OK with 66Mc FSB?
Yes, you stand a far better chance of making this hack work with a 66MHz
part. No the newer std parts are not designed to run with a 66MHz FSB,
you should always order them as /66. Note that AMD has stopped making
these chips due to low demand for them (with 100MHz boards <$80 USA the
price/performance is usually worth it for most folks.)
> (I'm aware of the slight hardware hack required to make a T2P4 accept a K6-2.
> What would be the fastest K6-2 running ok with a 66 FSB? And is this
> potential upgrade worthwhile, with K6-2 going here for around 80-90$ or so?)
I've got about 8 of the T2P4's here and I'm not going to bother with it,
they are all getting replaced with 100MHz boards... and 450MHz chips
that have now fallen to <$82 US. And I pick up 1MB L2 cache while I'm
at it :-)
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