will g400 dual head work on AMD k6-2 350?anyone using it w/ this cpu

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will g400 dual head work on AMD k6-2 350?anyone using it w/ this cpu, how bad or good it is..?

[Meek]

Hi.

I had for a short while a G400 with a K6-2 300. Basically I think a G400 is overkill for any K6-2... Dualhead works, but software DVD is choppy, Direct3d games are usually OK. If you have a VIA MVP3 chipset, you probably can not use the latest 5.30 drivers.

The good point is that the frame rates stay on a good (or reasonable) level to high resolutions, as it is the CPU and not the graphics card that is the bottleneck.

If you are mostly playing games like Unreal, Quake etc, I would probably not recommend a G400, at least not before TurboGL is available for K6-2 as well.

All in all, I would consider the upgrade path as a total solution. If you current card is old (pre-TNT, pre-G200, pre-Voodoo2), I would take the G400 now and worry about the CPU/mobo later. If you have a previous generation card (G200, TNT etc), I would probably first upgrade the CPU side of things.

Also, now that the memory prices begin to reach reasonable levels again, I would make sure I have at least 128 MB of memory (hmm... time to do some shopping)...

M.

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Athlon500/MSI6167/64M(!)/10GIBM/6GSamsung/1GSCSI IBM/AHA2940/CL2xDVD/FastMM2+MJPEG/HPPSScanner/HPPSPrinter/G400DH32M/ZIP100SCSI/Mitsumi2xCD-R/Samsung17GL/MX300/AKA Electric Classic

[Zwisch]

I am using it on a k6-3 400 and all works fine... of course not as stable or fast as my PII's but still, i run dual head with no problems on that computer...

[Joel]

I'm running it on an AMD K6-2/400 and all is pretty good, including DVD playback.

Joel



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System Specs

[JoeDredd]

I have no problems at all with my k62-400 DVD playback and all games D3D & openGL are real fast

K62 400
160mb PC100
GVC 1541 Mobo
Windows98SE
Altec Lansing Speakers
SndBlaster PCI64
Matrox G400 32/DH
WD 8.4GB
Panasonic DVD 6X/32X
Memorex CDrom 48X