I'm running an AMD K6, at 200 MHz, and personally like it, both price,
and performancewise. Intel's monopoly is slightly starting to annoy me, and
I'm happy someone else put out a worthy (better) opponent.
The AMD K6 has MMX-type technology, which does improve performance. Why?
While it's true that applications need to support MMX to take advantage of
its technology, it's also true that both Intel's MMX's, and K6's have
larger L2 caches, thus improving performance. Performancewise the AMD K6,
is AFAIK somewhere between an Intel MMX and a Pentium II(/PPro).
For hardware specs, but no direct Linux-tests, check out
http://www.tomshardware.com/
Lastly, it's often said bogomips don't mean anything, and that's probably
true, however I'll throw that in, too. > 400 on my 200MHz. Also, there's a
drhystone.c out there, which tests performance.
I've heard quotes like "they run cool... I run them because I can't risk a
server going down" etc etc. Speaking of non-intel-x86's, the cyrix's
alledgedly have some problems in Linux. But I have no personal experience.
disclaimer: I'm neither a Linux or hardware expert, but I never claimed to
be one, either :>
>
> Anybody have any information on this processor, as far as how well it
runs
> under Linux? Looking to run it as a workstation, nothing fancy.
>
> -Paul
>
>
regards,
-domi [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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