I had a K6-2 350MHz back in the day. I upgraded it to the K6-III 400 because I couldn't get a 450. It worked quite well for me back in the day. I had an EPoX MVP3G board. They aren't the fastest chips from that time period, but they work great in a lot of games from the time frame. Glad to see you fixed that socket. A lot of people would have thrown it out. Glad to see the hardware preservation.
WOW thanks for this video, the level of detail I don't have to now research for myself is a real time saver! I recently stumbled across your channel in your repair video for the Compaq Presario.
Feels strange to, 20-25+ years later, realize that both AMD and cyrix cpus were actually quite good in the socket 3 to 7 era. Sure amd 486 up to 100 MHz were "standard" but the faster variants were really uncommon where I grew up. And the k6 2/3 were uncharted territory. A friends Mother bought a everex explora mini system as a christmas present to him and his brothers, more a punishment then a present actually.. K6-2 450 with 64mb ram and integrated gfx, we did what we could adding memory and voodoo 2 cards but it was a sad experience 🤣
Yes! There is indeed! 2MB max cache size, but I would also have to replace the tag ram. Maybe some day I'll try adding another MB of level 2 cache, but first I need to get better at soldering.
I actually got it for free. Original price on ebay was around 140 USD after tax. But due to this fault, the seller refunded the money not requiring the board to be sent back.
Hi, thanks for your videos, I do enjoy all of them. But I expected something different for this one :) but you were lucky you didn't have to replace the full socket... which I need to do, where did you get the socket replacements? I need one for an aladdin V super socket 7 board
I found them on ebay while I was on a trip to US. I think there were only a couple of ads for Socket 7. I hope you'll find them and good luck with replacing such a socket. I have never done a socket replacement, but I shiver just thinking about doing it!
I have an Asus P5A board running the same CPU but I had to hardware-mod connections to pins on the CPU socket for K6-2+ compatibility with the board and I believe I'm getting limited PCI/AGP bus performance. I'd like to compare Unreal timedemo framerates. That's what I'd like to see: K6-2+ at 600MHz, Voodoo 3 3000, Unreal timedemo at 1024x768.
@@bitsundbolts I assume you don't have any Voodoo3's of any type cuz I could adjust my card's clock speed to match one of the other models if you did. Actually I have one of each of the Voodoo3 models now but my V3-2000 is PCI, all others AGP. If you're ever in upstate NY I'll let you borrow one :)
Correct, I do not have any Voodoo 3 yet. But I'll keep looking and will eventually get one. Edit: Thank you for your offer. Unfortunately, I am about 14 hrs away from NY.
Correct, that's what I've seen from a pin-out diagram. I think I said it also in my October Channel Update video. Either way I had to open the socket because it would screw up any CPU that I'd place in the socket.
@@bitsundbolts Yea and you would have to disassemble it either way. I have only just discovered your channel. You have some interesting content over here...
@@bitsundbolts if you ever get via apollo pro chipset board with tualatin suport, there is a mod you may want to do to it due to a bug bioses for those boards can't simply use pci/agp dividers and to get any overclocking done on those boards it is best to insolate bsel 1 and bsel2 pins in the secket and add external jumpers for bus select. because if cpu demands 133mhz bus even if it is celeron 566 on 66mhz bus board will work fine with as if it was 1133mhz celeron on 133mhz bus and would aply pci and agp clocks correctly, if you set them in bios or by jumpers on board that way agp and pci would get 100% overclock and board would not post, aply to any via chipset for s370/slot1 they could aso run sdram on ridiculous speed for some reason have fun getting one of those
It depends on what you need to fix. I only had to lift the socket cover and bend a metal plate back into position. A plastic prying tool was enough. Replacing an entire socket on the other hand requires a desoldring station
From what I've read is that most AGP cards have trouble on socket 7 boards. Voodoo 3 seems to be compatible as it doesn't implement AGP features - basically a PCI card made compatible to the AGP interface. I'll try to figure something out to create some interesting content
@@bitsundbolts would be an interesting video to see what gpus work best on agp on socket 7 . i vaguely remember having a socket 7 board with an agp card
@@bitsundbolts I used VIA based board with AGP Riva 128 card and there were no problem, only VIA AGP drivers had to be installed. I think that most problem with AGP on this board is when you try to use more modern, power hungry card. Because voltage stabilizer for AGP is not designed for it and overheat.
AMD K6 series were great value at the time. However, I have no idea why you're using them in a retro machine. Pentium was far superior, just unaffordable at the time.
