Bei allen hochtrabenden Ambitionen in Sachen Athlon, Palomino, etc. wollen wir natürlich die tapferen K6-User nicht völlig vergessen ;)
Sooper hat sich mit dem seltenen Mobile K6-III+ (mit Betonung auf dem "Plus", ehe das wieder jemand übersieht und uns mailt, warum wir über 2 Jahre alte CPUs berichten müssen... *hmpf*) angenommen und einen umfassenden Bericht verfaßt. Hier ein kurzer Auszug:
"From reading around it became obvious that people with revision 1.04 (and lower, with clock generator ICS-9148BF-53) of the P5A all or most had success with the K6-III+, but people with revision 1.06 of the P5A all experienced very poor performance or nothing at all. People began speculating that it was the fault of the clock generator chip. Some people observed that on the Asus website there is mention of a new clock generator (ICS-9148AF-133) which was to be used in conjunction with the newer revisions of the P5A. For what reason it wasn't, nobody knows. People with the newer non-functional revisions took note of their clock-generator tag numbers. They then compared those numbers to the older revision's clock generators. Many found that both old and new revisions had the exact same clock generator. None had the clock generator mentioned on the Asus website. This clock generator issue is still regarded as one of the best explanations for the inability of the K6-III+ to work with revision 1.06 of the P5A. Another issue could be that the beta BIOS that Asus released, which works in conjunction with the K6-III+ on revisions 1.04 and lower, may not be properly optimized for the newer revisions of the board."
Wie es um die Performance des Systems in Verbindung mit der verwendeten Voodoo 3 steht, lest am besten selbst. Für Freunde des K6-Designs sei auch nochmal auf unseren Artikel "AMD K6-2+ gegen Duron - Treffen der Generationen" verwiesen, in dem der K6-2+ einem gleich getakteten Duron zumindest im Integer-Bereich ganz schön einheizt... ;-)
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