This is socket 370. It's another format brought out by Intel.
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The K6-3 has ONBOARD L2 cache. It's going to be slightly faster. Note: I said SLIGHTLY. The K6-3 reviews I've seen have shown they're faster than equivallent P2's by only a VERY slight margin. A couple points one way or the other does not a spanking make. Definitely not what I'd call "considerable".
Wait till there's solid benchmarking on OFF THE SHELF procs for both the K6-3 and the new Celeron-A's. Don't start blathering on about vapourwares until then.
Anyhow, I stole the following quote from off the site.
The K7 is AMD's Xeon
And that's about DEAD ON. The price point that AMD is looking for with the K7, while not quite on the level of the bleeding-edge Intel chips, is aimed at a CONSIDERABLY higher strata than the current K6-2 and 3 chips are. Besides which, you're going to have to buy, in ADDITION TO THE PROCESSOR:
A new motherboard
A new case
Brand new RAM to accomodate the K7.
Do the math. Intel's STILL going to come off cheaper.
In addition, you're probably going to see a LOT of complaints (similar to the launching of the LX chipset) and compatibility issues with the K7 arise early on.
The only people who are probably going to wind up buy the K7 are those poor sods who must ABSOLOUTELY have THE fastest setup of the moment.
The new packaging is going to be nearly identical to the old PPro socket. But it won't be pin-compatible (you cannot plug a PPro into a Socket 370, and you cannot plug a new S370 Celeron into an old PPro board).
A buddy of mine has tried the client on both a K6-2 300 and 333. It'll run (well, walk) the client with nothing else running. Unfortunately, if you're doing anything else, you take a big performance hit and your keyrate dogs out.
He actually locked the 300 machine twice doing nothing more than RC5 and IRC.
Use whatever you have, just be aware.
What am I running? Currently I'm running a P2 333 with 192 MB RAM and about 9 gigs of disk space. I'll be upgrading in a month or so to a CeleronA OC'ed to 450 or 504. Total cost? $500.
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Slot A IS going to be used for K7/Alpha.
This is socket 370. It's another format brought out by Intel.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Bah!
Bah!
Oh, and before I forget....
Bah!
The K6-3 has ONBOARD L2 cache. It's going to be slightly faster. Note: I said SLIGHTLY. The K6-3 reviews I've seen have shown they're faster than equivallent P2's by only a VERY slight margin. A couple points one way or the other does not a spanking make. Definitely not what I'd call "considerable".
Wait till there's solid benchmarking on OFF THE SHELF procs for both the K6-3 and the new Celeron-A's. Don't start blathering on about vapourwares until then.
Anyhow, I stole the following quote from off the site.
The K7 is AMD's Xeon
And that's about DEAD ON. The price point that AMD is looking for with the K7, while not quite on the level of the bleeding-edge Intel chips, is aimed at a CONSIDERABLY higher strata than the current K6-2 and 3 chips are. Besides which, you're going to have to buy, in ADDITION TO THE PROCESSOR:
Do the math. Intel's STILL going to come off cheaper.
In addition, you're probably going to see a LOT of complaints (similar to the launching of the LX chipset) and compatibility issues with the K7 arise early on.
The only people who are probably going to wind up buy the K7 are those poor sods who must ABSOLOUTELY have THE fastest setup of the moment.
I have better things to spend my cash on.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
The new packaging is going to be nearly identical to the old PPro socket. But it won't be pin-compatible (you cannot plug a PPro into a Socket 370, and you cannot plug a new S370 Celeron into an old PPro board).
What's this going to do to Celery Sandwiches though?
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
A buddy of mine has tried the client on both a K6-2 300 and 333. It'll run (well, walk) the client with nothing else running. Unfortunately, if you're doing anything else, you take a big performance hit and your keyrate dogs out.
He actually locked the 300 machine twice doing nothing more than RC5 and IRC.
Use whatever you have, just be aware.
What am I running? Currently I'm running a P2 333 with 192 MB RAM and about 9 gigs of disk space. I'll be upgrading in a month or so to a CeleronA OC'ed to 450 or 504. Total cost? $500.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!