Sunday, February 3, 2008

AMD K6-2 vs. AMD K6-III


Now that the AMD K6-III and AMD K6-2 are both available in 400 MHz from PowerLeap. I was wondering which PowerLeap adapter upgrade performs better. This page contains the results of my testing of both processors on my Packard Bell PB 640 motherboard with a Mr. BIOS upgrade, 64 MB of RAM, Windows 95 and a Stealth II S220 video card. So what is the AMD-K6-III processor with 3DNow! technology? Well, AMD describes it as "the ultimate sixth generation processor for home PC enthusiasts and business power users. The AMD-K6-III processor combines 3DNow! technology with AMD's new TriLevel Cache design to deliver exceptional performance on leading business and consumer software applications. The key to this enhanced performance is our innovative TriLevel Cache design, which provides the largest total system cache for desktop PCs-more than four times the size of other competing system designs." Basically this means that the AMD-K6-III is an AMD K6-2 that has 256 L2 cache on the CPU

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