Yep - There are issues...


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Posted by xiaou2 on 24, 2000 at 11:01 PM:

In Reply to: Hmm..I thought there were compatablity problems. (more) posted by john mac on 24, 2000 at 9:16 PM:


Actually - Ive started out with an AMD K62 500... which ran ok... till I went to friends to play. His PII 450 killed it.

Later I upgraded to a new Athlon 650mhz. I got the new 133hmz memmory and a board that was high on the reviews. It ran ok for a little bit... but then I kept getting lockups. I... and other techs tried EVERYTHING to clear it up (new motherboards, ram, software drivers, different cards...ect) as I worked at the computer shop.

I gave up in disgust after like 6 months...and asked for a 'Downgrade' to a PIII 550. I was bent that I had to give up 100mhz of power... Untill... I ran the thing!

When I had the Athlon 650 running Dos mame with Mortal Kombat (full 16bit audio, and color..ect) I got only arround 85% using Full-throttle mode.

Now running Mortal Kombat - I get over 120% with full everything on. (and thats on a 550 not a 650 !!!)

I do not know about the new Athlon chips... but here is the deal...

Motherboards makers arnt putting a lot of effort into design - which is causing instability problems. Also - there seems to be no noticeable performance increase even with the faster bus. Most likly, its due to 2 things...

1 Math chip is not as fast or accurate as Intel's
2 Standard programs do not make use of this extra power... so its basically useless :(

My friend kept his athlon upgrade cause he said his computer renders 3d graphics faster... but I think he was full of it. It surely didnt show much power as far as emulation was concerned.

My other finding is that the ABit Be62 is probably one of the fastest boards Ive ever experienced. I saw a lot of harware in that place - and nothing ran as fast, or as stable.

Not an AMD hater or a Pentium superfreak... Just an emulation lover ;)

Sincerely,
Steve
:)

Id love AMD to proove me wrong... but as it stands, I think Id put money on any pentium of the same mhz rating against a any amd chip for emulation performance




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