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Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.colostate.edu> wrote:
: What if I went with a nice K6-2 and the familiar Socket 7 interface. 
: Has anyone tried K6-2?  Are they any good?  Are they supposed to be
: comprable to a PII or a PIII?

They are pretty good.  They lack some of the floating-point power that
the Intel's have, but they are very decent chips.  I should note that
the Intel Celery Processors are being sold in a socket-7-ish package
again.  I guess it makes them cheaper than the slot package.
There is some acronym for this, I'm sure, but I don't recall.  
Other than that, I can't help much.  I haven't had an AMD since my
486DX2/80.  That was a mean chip. :)

:> I have to upgrade some old computers.  I'm replacing the
:> MB/Processor/Memory.  I will by buying PII's which fit into Slot 1 MB's
:> right?  I've only every used Socket 7 (I think I saw a Socket 3 once.
:> for PII and MB's, will I need any special tools etc. to put them
:> together.  Any words of caution?  Can someone point me to a tutorial on
:> the different cpu/mb interfaces?

I would suggest a nice Slot-1 board with an Intel BX chipset.  You can
put anything from a Celery 233 (do they exist?) to a PII/550 in there.

Putting in Slot chips is easy.  The Celery ones plug in like an
interface card.  The PII and PIII cartridges plug in like an old
Atari card.  Well, more like a NeoGeo card, but I digress.  No tools
needed, but keep an eye on the instructions.  You may need to attach
different supports for different processors.  Eg, the PII/III's usually
have big heat sinks, and latch into a support.  Celerys don't latch
at all, frighteningly enough...

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