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Used my K6-2 on Win95 for 3 months and on win 98 for 4 months,  I have
encountered no problems because of the processor.  I upgraded to a different
motherboard and that is when I had problems.  BIOS settings are on the
mother board I had to play with my BIOS settings for 3 weeks to get
everything worked out.  I even had to down load some files to get it to
work.  My older motherboard was entirely setup out of the box.  I blame the
motherboard and my local dealer.  My dealer was not cooperative when I had
problems.

The motherboard I had problems with is a FIC the one that was fine was EPOX
both running the VIA chipset and an AWARD Bios.  I dont understand same
chipset and BIOS one worked the other didn't.  The FIC is great now that the
setup is fine.

My suggestion is save your cash and get a K6-2 the bang for your buck is
amazing.  Chances are the salesperson you spoke to was on commision and the
hefty price tag on the PII influenced his recommendation.  If you are set on
spending X amount of dollars spend it in ram or a really hot video card.

The K6-2 400 is out and avalible for around 175-185 in most locations.

Here is my set up:

K6-2 300
128MB pc100 ram
FIC PA2013 with 1meg L2 cache
SB LIVE sound
Generic 8 meg AGP video
8.4 gig hard drive
3com network card (hooked up to cable modem)
Viking 56K modem (lucent chipset)
32x cd rom

As you can see nothing really flashy but I can leave an insane amount of
applications open at once.  I often leave MS publisher open while I do
something else in word then open IE4 and my email all at once and I still
dont have stability problems.  I even Overclocked to 350 for a while but I
have a poorly ventilated case and the heat was killing my CPU.

When selecting a Motherboard make sure it has ON BOARD USB support and the
required connections, this was my main beef with the Epox board, I had to
get a special connector to use the USB but I could not get one anywhere.

If you need anymore advice drop me a mail.

Greg

biker@airmail.net wrote in message <77h4st$o8i$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>In article <3699D51D.787CC29F@home.com>,
>  "Sam J. Bowling" <tdi@home.com> wrote:
>> John Marco wrote:
>> >
>> > Salvatore Brancato wrote in message <77al7e$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.
>>
>
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