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P2 or K6 better chip?

T. Chris Kin

P2 or K6 better chip?

by T. Chris Kin » Tue, 13 Jan 1998 04:00:00

 I am planning to upgrade my mainboard and CPU within the next week or so.
I am currently running a Cyrix P-166+ with a Intergraph I3d100 card. The
games I run mostly are N2, Indycar2, SODA, and GP2. Which is the better
CPU, the AMD K6-233, or the Intel Pentium 2 233MMX. I realize that the K-6
is less expensive, but I have heard that it had had "floating point
problems" and lacks the speed of the P2. I plan on adding another 32 meg of
RAM which will bring me to 64 meg.

Any feedback?............Thanks, Chris

Questio

P2 or K6 better chip?

by Questio » Tue, 13 Jan 1998 04:00:00

Any Pentium, especially the P2's, has much more floating point speed than
anyone else's chip, and for games, that makes a big difference.  With what
they are selling P2's for right now, why get anything else?


> I am planning to upgrade my mainboard and CPU within the next week or so.
>I am currently running a Cyrix P-166+ with a Intergraph I3d100 card. The
>games I run mostly are N2, Indycar2, SODA, and GP2. Which is the better
>CPU, the AMD K6-233, or the Intel Pentium 2 233MMX. I realize that the K-6
>is less expensive, but I have heard that it had had "floating point
>problems" and lacks the speed of the P2. I plan on adding another 32 meg of
>RAM which will bring me to 64 meg.

>Any feedback?............Thanks, Chris

Craig March

P2 or K6 better chip?

by Craig March » Tue, 13 Jan 1998 04:00:00

I've got a PII 266 and I wouldn't use anything else (except a 300 or
higher). I've used in the past Cyrix and AMD and they just don't run games
as well. My PII makes things absolutely FLY. I love it.
Craig Marcho
http://www.cmpu.net/public/marcho/


> I am planning to upgrade my mainboard and CPU within the next week or so.
>I am currently running a Cyrix P-166+ with a Intergraph I3d100 card. The
>games I run mostly are N2, Indycar2, SODA, and GP2. Which is the better
>CPU, the AMD K6-233, or the Intel Pentium 2 233MMX. I realize that the K-6
>is less expensive, but I have heard that it had had "floating point
>problems" and lacks the speed of the P2. I plan on adding another 32 meg of
>RAM which will bring me to 64 meg.

>Any feedback?............Thanks, Chris


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