Old School Monday: R U 4 AMD-K6-2 3D CPU?
We've been talking a lot about AMD lately. For this week's Old School Monday, Gordon Mah Ung helps remind us of simpler times:
Along with the clock speed war, AMD and Intel used to wage a healthy instruction set war. You know, MMX, SSE and AMD’s 3D Now! Instructions. Designed to make up for the K6’s anemic floating point performance, 3D Now! was first introduced with the K6-2 3DNow! CPU in Super Socket 7 trim (with AGP to boot!) Join us as we peer back to 1998 and for a glimpse of the K6-2’s coming out part. Would it have what it takes to beat the Pentium II? Andrew Sanchez will tell you along with commentary from Nvidia’s David Kirk, John Carmack and input from the bootboyz.
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Marsupial Vomit
October 27, 2010 at 1:10pm
I remember reading this article... Wow...
I built my second computer with a K6-2 300MHz. I remember how cool these would run compared to the Pentiums. I ran one for a day or two with no heatsink on it, just for giggles.
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wh3resmycar
October 26, 2010 at 8:00am
my very first rig.
never was able to play half-life on it, but for some mysterious reasons, i can play the WANTED mod.
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g9.udaya
October 26, 2010 at 6:03am
like my old rig,it has one of those proc,kick-ass agin AMD, my first amd proc is amd
Am286
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AMD4298
October 26, 2010 at 2:40am
My first computer when i was just a boy was 5 years ago, i remember nothing of it except that it was windows 98 and had an easy acessable DOS command. One time, i opened dos by restarting it in dos mode and, unbenounce to me, hacked into my naighbors computer who was connected without firewall to IBM. Glad my mom stopped me.
Those were the good ol days
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Nyarlathotep
October 25, 2010 at 8:26pm
It's funny to look back and see a nVidia "scientist" endorsing AMD technology.
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leorick
October 25, 2010 at 7:26pm
I have a functioning AMD K6-2 500mhz CPU here with motherboard. I've kept it safe and sound all these years to remind me how i love this socket 7 variant :)
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whathuhitwasntme
October 25, 2010 at 6:18pm
my very first "custom" pc was a k6 II 333
had a blistering 8gb hdd
and 256 mg of ddr
omg it was funky
I even purchased the k6 II 500 when it came out later an UPgraded it lol
put you gotta remember this was back when the pentiums were "new" and you could still rock a 486 DX4 for 100 mhz over the 75 mhz pentiums
so a 333 was blazing fast
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JDorfler
October 25, 2010 at 2:32pm
My first build was of the K6-2 at 500Mhz. Had 256 Megs of RAM, a Voodoo 3 3000, a Creative Labs MPEG decoder card, a Creative Live Gamer soundcard, and a US Robotics 56K dial up modem. Those were the days. Oh memories.
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