K6-2 is a good partner for G400?. Please, tell me!

[Ismael]

I read many user using PIII and PII ( others Athlon )with the G400 cards. Can anyone tell me somthing about the pair K6-2 and G400 ?. Works fine ?. G400 is a good card for 3D Studio ?. Thank you. I´m waiting your opinions.

Ismael

[DuRaNgO]

you won't have the fastest computer around, but you will have the best quality and a good gaming system, if you want a great gaming system, you'll need to upgrade to a P-3 or Athlon
jim

[Groove Diz]

yeah and if ya have a shuttle motherbord
u can trach it... belive me!

------------------
My sys:
MotherB (Asus)
P3 450mhz (plain)
Mga G200 16mb @ 110mhz
with Homemade Superhigh
Rpm cooler...
pioneerDvD 36/6x
128mb Pc100 Mhz
16,5Gb Seagate (UDma)
Yamaha S90
& awe64
Win98

[jtracy]

If you get a K6... whatever you do, DON'T get an Asus ss7 motherboard. You will be very very sorry... like me.

[billko]

If you need to go Super-7, why not go directly to a KIII? It's a BIG improvement over a K6-2 at the same clock speed.

Bill


------------------
People call me a computer god; I remind them that I am merely a minor deity...

[DuRaNgO]

I agree with Billko on this one
jim

------------------
PIII-500mhz @ 620 ! with an Abit BE6 mobo
128mb pc-100
Mill G400 (YAHOO!!!) 32mb @ 167/208 with MGATweak-417mhz, (2.5, 2, 2.5), PD 5.41 & bios 1.5-22
Maxtor 14.3 gb Uata66 hdd
SB Live!
Winblows 98se & DX7
32 lbs. of fans, heatsinks and aluminum ductwork
3DMark Result 5954.69 3DMarks
Synthetic CPU 3D Speed 9325.69 CPU 3DMarks
Rasterizer Score 2791.72 3DRasterMarks
Game 1 - Race 65.07 FPS
Game 2 - First Person 54.89 FPS
Fill Rate 268.79 MTexels/s

[aNtHrAx323]

and jtracy, Asus makes the best SS7 board i have ever experienced. the P5A beats out the GA-5AX and everything else

------------------
-Campbell "aNtHrAx323" Krueger
anthrax32@yahoo.com

System specs:
AMD K6-III 400 at 112x4.0 at 2.3V
Asus P5A
96 MB SD-RAM (the old 66 MHz... stable enough tho =)
Matrox G400 AGP 32MB Dual-Head
Diamond Sonic Impact S90 PCI
Linksys LNE100TX WOL PCI Ethernet adapter
Processor is a peltier/Alpha cooling combo, avg. temp is around 85 F.

http://anthrax.home.texas.net

[Frankfurt]

that may be so anthrax233, but it is also a motherboard company that REFUSES/REFUSED to use more than 512K of cache on their boards because it wasn't a standard(from a computer salesperson who knows his stuff)...any other MB maker worth anything will offer a board that has more than 512K of cache, IMHO. my last two motherboards had 1MB and 2MB of cache respectively. I cant completely dismiss the Asus MBs though, that was the one i had before my current and previous motherboards (AOpen in case u are wondering)
Feel free to believe what u want though. back to the original question...I have a K6-2 450 with a G400 Max and it seems to run great. bye

Frankfurt

[jtracy]

Heh... then I'd like to know why OpenGL absolutely won't work properly when I installed a g400 on my P5a-b. If I could trade this piece of shit for something that actually works with my hardware, I'd do it in a second.

[Michael7]

Funny... my OpenGL works just fine and dandy on my P5A. No problems whatsoever. Don't blame the tools, Sparky.



------------------
-Michael
---------------
"Fight all the things that betray you."
--Excerpt from "Farscape: Rhapsody in Blue."
G400 32MB DH. Asus p5a. AMD K63-450. 128 MB. Huappage WinTV-PCI. SoundBlaster Live Value.

[jtracy]

Ok, then. What do you think is at fault? I did everything tech support told me and more.

[aNtHrAx323]

is the G400 the first card you've had in your system, jtracy? i had a Voodoo3 before, and it burned when the heatsink fell off (i knew i should've used thermal glue). so i bought the G400, and this is what i did. i hope none of these things will offend you in any way.

<ol>[*]uninstall all old drivers from previous video cards (and all glide- and 3Dfx-related DLL files if it was a Voodoo3 or Rush, unless you currently have a V2)[*]go to http://www.asus.com and download AFLASH and the latest Asus P5A-B BIOS file (NOT the P5A, since the P5A is ATX and the P5A-B is TX)[*]set your graphics aperature size (or something like that) to 256 MB[*]make sure you have your RAM page mode/speed settings set to "By SPD" (it's more reliable and stable)[*]download the Matrox Drivers Uninstall utility and uninstall your old drivers. then download the latest ones and the TurboGL drivers. don't download the 5.50 because of all the bugs. download 5.41.008[*]if all else fails, reformat, or move to a P5A from a P5A-B. TX sucks anyways. get ATX for future upgrade compatibility.

hope this helped. again, i hope nothing offended you.

------------------
-Campbell "aNtHrAx323" Krueger
anthrax32@yahoo.com

System specs:
AMD K6-III 400 at 112x4.0 at 2.3V
Asus P5A
96 MB SD-RAM (the old 66 MHz... stable enough tho =)
Matrox G400 AGP 32MB Dual-Head
Diamond Sonic Impact S90 PCI
Linksys LNE100TX WOL PCI Ethernet adapter
Processor is a peltier/Alpha cooling combo, avg. temp is around 85 F.

http://anthrax.home.texas.net

[Michael7]

First you must quantify "won't work properly". That's far too vague for anyone to give you a meaninful answer. What do you mean by it? Is it slow? Filled with visual artifacts? Crashes? Just won't start?



------------------
-Michael
---------------
"Fight all the things that betray you."
--Excerpt from "Farscape: Rhapsody in Blue."
G400 32MB DH. Asus p5a. AMD K63-450. 128 MB. Huappage WinTV-PCI. SoundBlaster Live Value.

[jtracy]

Sorry if I seem angry right now. I appreciate any help I can get, and I would not be offended about any advice you can give.

A more detailed description of my problem is here:
http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum4/HTML/002721.html

After looking at your suggestions, I found that I haven't changed the RAM page mode settings. After going back to BIOS settings, I saw that it's been by SPD from the start.

The only thing I haven't tried is moving to P5A. Do you mean to flash the BIOS to P5A, or just replace the motherboard with a P5A? If it's BIOS, I had no idea that the P5A-B can use the P5A BIOS.

Yes, I am aware that AT is pretty bad, but I have 3 computers in AT cases from the pre-ATX days, including a pretty expensive one I have my stuff in now. Although I am thinking of setting up a dual-ppro server and I'll have to get an ATX for that...

... um anyway, Thanks for your help both of you. I do apreciate it when people pay attention to a problem that I have. Sorry for posting off-topic messages, though.

[jediphoenix]

I always loved my K6-2 450 and FIC PA-2013 rev 2.0 combo

------------------
<A HREF="http://jediphoenix.iscool.net/
" TARGET=_blank>http://jediphoenix.iscool.net/
</A>