The K6-2 Review (300-400Mhz)

by William Henning
Editor, CPUReview
Copyright February 21, 1999
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

I have been using my AMD K6-2 for more than six months now, and it is about time that I wrote a review of AMD's K6-2 processors. If you have read the other reviews and articles on my site, you will have already seen the K6-2 300Mhz benchmark results presented in this article; I have now added K6-2 350Mhz and K6-2 400Mhz test results.

AMD is about to release the K6-3 to compete with Intel's Pentium 3; I will be reviewing both the K6-3 and the Pentium 3 as soon as possible.

I will be presenting a number of benchmarks where the K6-2 is overclocked. I do not recommend that you run your processor over its rated speed - it is possible to damage your CPU. I do not accept any responsibility if you damage your processor.

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System Description - Soyo 5EHM

• Soyo 5EHM motherboard (MVP3, AGP, 1M cache, Super7)
• K6-2 266Mhz processor
• K6-2 400Mhz CTX core
• 64Mb 10ns SDRAM (Hyundai, 2x32Mb sticks)
• 6.4Gb Quantum ST hard drive (WD 1.6Gb for Linux benchmark)
• 32x Creative Labs cdrom
• Zoltrix AudioPlus 6400 sound card (ISA)
• Acer 10Mbps PCI network card (NE2000 clone)
• Asus 3DExplorer AGP 4Mb (Riva 128)
• Windows 95 OSR 2.5 with usb, agp and udma patches
• ASUS 3DExplorer v2.0en drivers from their ftp site
• Direct X 6

Benchmark Programs

• Wintach benchmark
• Turok demo
• Forsaken demo
• Incoming demo
• Final Reality benchmark
• Linux Kernel compilation

Click here for the Benchmark Results (and more!).

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