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Article #3699Re: K62 on Windows 98
From: biker
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:00
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In article <3699D51D.787CC29F@home.com>, "Sam J. Bowling" <tdi@home.com> wrote: > John Marco wrote: > > > > Salvatore Brancato wrote in message <77al7e$qkk$1@nslave1.tin.it>... > > >I have a K6II on my computer with Win98 and it goes very well!!! > > >And I tell you more, the news DirectX6 are optimised for it... > > >Enjoy your K6II... > > >Nick Wiseman <nwiseman@webfront.net.au> wrote in message > > >76ut1p$lvb$1@news.mel.aone.net.au... > > >>Hi, > > >> > > >>Hi I am about to put together a new computer for myself, and this time I > > >>have decided on an AMD K62 (either 300 or 350 - not too sure yet) and a > > >>computer dealer has told me that the K62 does not like windows 98 and > > plays > > >>up. > > >> > > >>Is this true? > > > > I have a K6-2 with the ALI ALLADIN V motherboard and 95 MB of 100 Mhz Dram. > > System is great and I couldn't be happier. And, if you are lucky you can > > find some programs optimized for the k6-2. Quake II runs better and faster > > than a PII 400. Never had a Win 98 problem. > > > > John > > I have a similar setup and _had_ all kinds of problems until I set the > BIOS to it's minimal default setting (or whatever it's called). All the > problems seem to be gone, but It's a bit early to know for sure. It does > irk me that the same settings that worked fine in win95 (a and osr2) > caused so much trouble with win98. > > -- > Sam J. Bowling > Third Dimension Illustration > http://tdi.ml.org Hi Sam, What is BIOS? I am considering buying a K6-2 soon. It the BIOS setting somewhere in the Prefs setting, like where you set the fonts and resolution settings. Some people argue in favor of the Pentium II. I just don't want to run into a lot of programs that don't like the K6-2 processor. biker@airmail.net like K6-2. > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1070cf,2e8922e77585a9a9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1070cf,public X-Google-Thread: 10a574,2e8922e77585a9a9 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a574,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,2e8922e77585a9a9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public From: biker@airmail.net Subject: Re: K62 on Windows 98 Date: 1999/01/13 Message-ID: <77h4st$o8i$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Deja-AN: 431972924 References: <76ut1p$lvb$1@news.mel.aone.net.au> <77al7e$qkk$1@nslave1.tin.it> <77b8q9$jd1$1@news.megsinet.net> <3699D51D.787CC29F@home.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x8.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 207.136.50.222 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Jan 13 03:45:34 1999 GMT Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.windows98,it.comp.hardware.cpu X-Http-User-Agent: IBrowse/1.22 (AmigaOS 3.0)