rec.autos.simulators

Any thoughts on this chip with a Monster 3D for running F1RS & GPL? I've
seen some reviews that make it sound awesome, but with hype being what it
is, I remain unconvinced. A K6 2-300 with 100mhz motherboard for under
$300.00 with P2-400 performance makes me really want to be convinced. Also,
I know DirectX 6 will be optimized for this chip, as will Glide and OpenGL,
but these all seem to be written for the Voodoo 2. Will there be any
drivers for the original Voodoo?

Larf

                                                       Larry

As I understand it, the floating point performance meets and indeed exceeds
that of a similarly clocked PII, and for winstones and especially 3Dbench
scores a 300mhz K6-2 equals or exceeds a 400mhz PII.

   I've been waiting for someone to challenge Intel.  So far I
haven't been able to recommend a non-intel chip.  Perhaps this
is it.  

   I would suggest posting to comp.sys.intel, and getting as
much info as you can.  I assume you have run the costs, how
do they compare?  

   What feature set does the "3D" in the name imply?  

   Anyway, good luck, keep us posted.  

                                                       Larry

Tom's hardware site has a review of this chip.

http://www.tomshardware.com/k6-2.html

Jeff

Thing is, sounds real good in theory, but I heard all this about MMX, so I'm
a bit leary.  And the drivers don't seem to be out for 3dfx.  But, may work
out well, DirectX 6.0 is supposed to support 3D Now, and I'd imagine we'll
get the 3dfx drivers with support too.

Gonna wait to actually see one of these puppies in action before passing
judgement, seems to be slightly faster than a P2/300 except in one test
showing on dual Voodoo 2's at 1024x768 where it was like almost twice as
fast as the P2/300, but the P2 score seemed low and the K6-2 score was
FASTER than at lower resolutions - not gonna believe that until I see it.

But if true, it'd be cool to get that performance cheap.

Ken

I'll probably be ordering a K6 2/300 and Epox 100mhz motherboard
shortly. I'll try to post some comments when I get it.

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I have one and haven't had any problems running any games or software that I
have. I also like the fact I saved alot of money buying this chip vs. a pII.

Do it! I'm very interested in it.

One question about the "floating point section", which should be very  
important to 3D-Games (and is bad in the old K6-CPU):

What is when I'm using a 3Dfx-Card (like Monster 3D)? Do I need this  
performance really?

Greetings,

Axel

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I'd like this to succeed, but quite skeptical about hype is all.  We'll see.

Ken

I'll be re-installing GP2, as well as SODA and a couple other racing
sims, and I'll post my findings.
I don't have Quake2, but I did the Quake timedemo 1 test on it at
640x480 accellerated and unaccelerated.
Unaccelerated was only about 17fps. GLQuake was 25.
Not stellar, but totally playable.

Hopefully, I can find a 100mhz rated 64meg DIMM tomorrow.

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