"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
>
> Vic wrote:
> >
> > Just curious
> >
> > I use an AMD K6-3 400.
> >
> > I know this is an older slower chip, but
> > it appears to run decently with 7.0-2.
> > Is K6-3 a cousin to the Pentium or Pentium3?
> >
> > Is the Athlon a totally new architecture or
> > more related to the K6-3?
> >
> The Athlon is a totally new arch. the K6-2 was related to PII
> and I suspec the K6-3 is related to the PIII's although the K6's
> still used socket-7's. The Athlon uses their own propritary Slot A
> technology (bad AMD 8-)) I have several K6-2-300's around and they
> run very well with 7.0 and 7.1 and my Athlon (K7) runs like a scaled
> dog.
The K6-3 is a kissing cousin of the K6-2. The only diff is that
on the K6-3, the L1 cache runs at processor speed, whereas on
K6-2, the L1 is slower.
Ron
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