ok so i dug out an old pc from a closet, put linux on it, and looked at the specs. it has 128mb ram and a 6gb HDD, and it runs pretty fast. but what is an amd k6? never heard of it before. and the mobo is real small with alot of pci slots. one is black and really long? any idea what it is?
what is this?
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An AMD K6 was the near equivalent to the Pentium Pro or P2 processor. For a lengthy explaination of the 166mhz-266mhz line of AMD cpus, http://www.pcguide.com/ref/cpu/fam/g6K6-c.html The black colored pci slot if on the left of the others when looking at the rear of the board was for the older style pci video cards. That old case is just above the 486 line of systems with the early attempts by AMD to outdo Intel.
I wasn't familiar with the model board you had to determine if it was isa or pci although it did sound like it. The early agp boards were already out about the same time as that case was apparently built. But glad you got what you needed there. I haven't seen an isa card since that old AST 486 was tossed! The next case had a 32mb agp card and an AMD K6 cpu on a Soyo board.
PC eye said:
Yea I still have a old Rise Super 7 board with a K6-III 450 and a 32mb agp nvidia card, got it at its limit with Ram 512mb Ha! Still runs like a top. Got a old Dell P3 500 and the K6-III was always faster, thats when I chaged over to AMD. Man 1998, seems like yesterday then again along time ago?
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way2evil said:
what applications were you runing
Try playing some games on it
anyone know what a turbo button does? there is a small lcd display on the front of the case that says 100 when the button is not pressed and 300 when it is. is this a increase from 100mhz to 300 in the processor speed when i hit the button or was it a gimmick to get someone to buy it?
It was a old feature that when the turbo button was pushed it would overclock by a very little bit, dont know if it did it by the FSB or timing, unless thats the board that came with the case it probably wont work!
Turbo Button's Function
"Turbo button generally refers to a button (control) on a piece of electronic equipment, which makes the equipment run faster in some way. Its two most popular incarnations are:
On some desktop computers, the Turbo button changes the effective speed of the system. It usually accomplishes this by either adjusting the CPU clock speed directly, or by turning off the processor's cache, forcing it to wait on slow main memory every time. The button was generally present on older systems, and was designed to allow the user to play older games that depended on processor speed for their timing. Systems could also use the keyboard combination of ctrl-alt-+/-, '+' switching turbo OFF and '-' switching it ON. Of course, calling it a "turbo" button when its function slows the system down can be a bit misleading, but the button was usually set up so the system would be at full speed when the button was "on".
On some video game controllers, a Turbo button or Autofire (sometimes implemented as a sliding switch instead of a button) determines the repeat rate of another action button. For example, the Nintendo Entertainment System's controller has two action buttons, labelled "A" and "B". Normally, pressing the "A" button will result in the action associated with "A" being done once -- for example, a character will jump once. This happens even when the "A" button is "held down" (depressed continually). A controller's "Turbo" functon will change this held-down functionality, so that the character would jump repeatedly, as if the "A" button were being pressed many times very quickly (a desirable feature in games where, for example, the "A" button fires a projectile)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
"Turbo button generally refers to a button (control) on a piece of electronic equipment, which makes the equipment run faster in some way. Its two most popular incarnations are:
On some desktop computers, the Turbo button changes the effective speed of the system. It usually accomplishes this by either adjusting the CPU clock speed directly, or by turning off the processor's cache, forcing it to wait on slow main memory every time. The button was generally present on older systems, and was designed to allow the user to play older games that depended on processor speed for their timing. Systems could also use the keyboard combination of ctrl-alt-+/-, '+' switching turbo OFF and '-' switching it ON. Of course, calling it a "turbo" button when its function slows the system down can be a bit misleading, but the button was usually set up so the system would be at full speed when the button was "on".
On some video game controllers, a Turbo button or Autofire (sometimes implemented as a sliding switch instead of a button) determines the repeat rate of another action button. For example, the Nintendo Entertainment System's controller has two action buttons, labelled "A" and "B". Normally, pressing the "A" button will result in the action associated with "A" being done once -- for example, a character will jump once. This happens even when the "A" button is "held down" (depressed continually). A controller's "Turbo" functon will change this held-down functionality, so that the character would jump repeatedly, as if the "A" button were being pressed many times very quickly (a desirable feature in games where, for example, the "A" button fires a projectile)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
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