[RESOLVED] AMD K6300 to a AMD K62 350

[Wurny]

Is it worth to go from a AMD K6300 to the K62 350? It probably will only be running at a 66mhz bus speed, but what would the settings for the 350, 66x 5.5? or 66 x 5?

[Darren Wilson]

forget running the K6-2 350 @ 66MHz. It doesn't like it.

Also if you do want to upgrade to the 350, get a board which uses the ALI V chipset as the 350 does have some minor probs with the VIA chipsets. Especially when they are upon PC-CHips boards http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smile.gif

[Wurny]

Well I can run a 75mhz buz and a 83mhz bus speed...is that better? I kinda sold my chip already so I dont really want to buy a new board...and I have a SIS chipset not a via chipset...on my board...

[BAD.IRON]

I JUST SET UP A AMD 350 ON A SYSTEM THAT HAD 10 NS SDRAM. WE COULD NOT GET IT TO RUN AT 100 MHZ BUS SPEED, SO WE SET IT UP AT 75 MHZ X 4.5. THE CUSTOMER WAS HAPPY WITH THAT.

[Wurny]

I ordered a K62-300 ..they dont run great at 100mhz I hear so I should be set. The Gigabyte website says that my board will handle the K62300 so I should be okay...
thanx for all the help guys

[mzcpu]

I have been running the AMD 350 and 400's at 100MHZ bus with ZERO problems using the FIC PA 2013...

[cttech]

I agree I have been running the K6-2's since they came out on the FIC PA 2013 boards and have yet to have a problem

[Comp]

I've set up about 100+ AMD 300's and 350's and all of them were ran at 100 mhz bus. I use only Epox motherboards. I found the MVP3C and MVP3G boards to be the best. The C board is an AT and the G board is an ATX. The disadvantage of using PC100 RAM on a system running at 100 mhz is obvious. You don't get full use of the bus speed.

[wyrmrider]

we run amd 350s and 400 on SOLTEK AT and ATx moptherboards with both 512 and 1mb caches

they have a seperate clock for the PCI/AGP bus so can run any speed memory by setting memory speed to PCI speed
work fine at either 66 or 100 mhz
with either 66 0r 100 mhz sdram or even 100 mhz with EDO or MFM 66 mhz memory
most of the speed of 100 mhz is from cache the ram makes very little difference
(except for cad or photoshop)
the 350s run ok at 4 x 100
we do not like to run at odd (75, 83 105 112) hard to sync pci and fsb
wyrmrider

[omegaman]

I have an IBM aptiva with a ALI M1542/M1543 mother board. I think it is the same chipset as the ALI alladin V chipset.
IT is a K6-2 350 Mhz. With an Accer 470ENB4B flash bios update from IBM.
When I set the multiplier to 4x100 it goes through POST then the IBM splash screen. then I go to setup to verify that it is at 400Mhz, it is.Then I get out of setup and continue to the win98 splash screen and just before I get to the desktop it gives an error message-the clockspeed does not match the chip with, an option to go to setup or ignore. If I ignore, it never boots to wiindows it goes to safemode. If if I go to setup it indicates 400Mhz and I can't find anything that I can set to make it boot to windows.
What can I do to get it to boot to windows besides going to a lower bus speed and a higher multiplier ?
I can go to 83 Mhz bus x 5 to get 415 and if increase the core voltage to 2.3volts it will boot to windows, but I want to run at 100Mhz bus.
What can I do?

Thank you,

omegaman

[Darren Wilson]

Omegaman

Either stick to 350 or buy a 400 if you want to run @ 100MHz. IBM have a funny setup to their systems, eventhough they use a standard chipset based board, they tweak it for htemselves so the end user has problem schanging anything. I think they do this so when you want to upgrade, you have to buy a new system instead of a new part.

Little tip:- Don't buy a branded system if you want to upgrade http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smile.gif


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