Windows 7 on a AMD K6-2 @ 450mhz running 3dmark 2001 nature test in the end.

[MondoHoN]

MWAHAHHAHAHA

6,666 VIEW IS MINE!

[geonerd]

Hook up an SSD to help with the swapping and program access.

I bet it would be reasonably useful at that point.

[shackphp]

THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!

how you make this?

which graphics card you have?

[rick62008]

@shackphp Why do you think it is impossible? The graphic card is a geforce 3 ti200 128mb at base clock, it doesn't even support aero glass.

[shackphp]

@rick62008

I can not imagine using amd k-6 with win7

is suicide (just run win xp and this crashes time to time) ;)

[rick62008]

@shackphp This was just for testing purposes. And the performance turned out to be quite interesting!

[TheRadikalstyle]

WTF???? I have an AMD K6-2 533MHZ and 386 of RAM with Windows XP and run very slowly :(

[rick62008]

@TheRadikalstyle Slow HDD and low memory are the culprit :P

[TheRadikalstyle]

@rick62008 hahaha ok this´s the problem :/

[shackphp]

@rick62008 oops sorry for the negative :(

i have a question:

with a pentium 3 703 mhz and 512 ram windows xp runs just as I do that?

[GTR717]

Score = -100

[rick62008]

@GTR717 Actually i think it was well over 1000 if i'm not mistaken.

[psychoclown420]

I'm running an athlon ii x4 3.0ghz with 4gb of ram, and i have vista ultimate 64 bit installed. What's more is that in a virtual machine with 2 cores and 2gb of ram, i have vista ultimate 32 bit installed. And you'll never guess, but inside that virtual machine i have another virtual machine with 1 core and 1gb of ram and vista ultimate 32 bit installed. Needless to say: Athlons and AMD in general are severely underrated.

[ojmar1]

@psychoclown420 But you have vista so you suck :P

[psychoclown420]

@ojmar1 Sir, that was a very uneducated and narrow minded troll comment. The point i'm trying to make it that windows vista is probably the most resource intensive desktop operating system ever released to this date, and the humble athlon is capable of running it inception style, vista inside vista, inside vista. The other point i'm making is that it isn't as bad or resource intensive as trolls like to thin it is. It's actually a great OS and i have never administered oral sex on another man.

[ojmar1]

@psychoclown420 I was only joking, I'm sorry. I was just going with the general view that vista is rubbish but I don't know because I've never had it. I should think before I post eh lol

[psychoclown420]

@ojmar1 it's cool brah, most people go with that general notion, and therefore the consensus is that it's a terrible OS, when it's actually pretty good. These complaints originated from people upgrading their XP machines back in 06 or 07 that only had maybe 256mb of ram, and it wouldn't install, or they had 512mb of ram and single core cpus and outdated gpus, and it ran terribly. same with laptops. Now, 4 years and 2 service packs later, it's as good as windows 7 in my opinion.

[ThePhoneUpdate]

I have an old K3-3D laptop, would try this but the 4GB drive and 2MB integrated graphics wouldn't go down too well...

[burgin118118]

ok i have AMD K6-2 running XP pro with 128mb of DDR1 RAM, 4 YES 4GB hard drive. its sooooooooo good.

[Kage999]

@burgin118118 O.O OMG DDR1!!! and not SD?!?!?! :O!

[gravitone]

I have a k6-III+ running at 600mhz, 100mhz bus, with 256mb sdram, Aladdin V chipset, but hdd performance will never be great since these things only have ata 33 support. A fast scsi card+hdd would probably be the best solution.

[Sypran]

wait a 450 mhz processor can run windows 7!? tbh i gotta say im shocked, cause i thought you would at least need 700 mhz or more

[200509285]

K6 I Try this. Nice, i dont know of that

[altoso99]

My firsp Pc ever had a k6. I'm gonna try win7 on it, if it runs too slow then I'll try XP.

[rick62008]

@altoso99

You might want to try add 1gb of sdram and a sata hard drive, and maybe a 2.0Pixel shader card. Any other config than that never mind. By the way, forget running any flash based site on this cpu, like for example, youtube :)

[nelizmastr]

@rick62008 motherboards that take sdram and AMD K5/K6/K6-II/K6-III dont have SATA lol.

there are some IDE 5400rpm drives out there. I ran Windows 7 on a 4200rpm laptop drive and it worked fine. (1.6Ghz M Sempron 2800+ 1GB DDR400)

[rick62008]

@nelizmastr There are pci\sata cards for that. I'm using one on a slot1 motherboard i have.

[nklapproth]

@rick62008 AMD processors from the k6 (or any socket 7 (super 7) processor) generation do not support SSE technology which Adobe flash relies on for hardware acceleration therefore you will get framed videos at best

[rick62008]

@nklapproth Yes, although i heard Adobe Flash will support hardware acceleration through the gpu. That would be from geforce 8\9 above i think, so if you can get a pci version of a weak geforce 8 or 9, you might get somewhere when it comes to youtube or other flash video based sites.

[steavedaver]

wow thats fast!

[aaaalex1994]

Super fast!!!

I had an AMD K6-2 300Mhz with XP, 20GB HDD and 256 MB RAM.

[1337ASM]

I still used a AMD k6 for a database server, but i use SUSE

[Empe1999]

@aaaalex1994 why u have a 15 years old pc

[fzotya22]

great video :) 15-25 fps in Nature, wow! what was the video card? I had an amd k6-2 450mhz... i'd love it, but i bought a duron 1100, so i sold it :)

[rick62008]

It was an old geforce3 ti200 128mb!

[rick62008]

This one was on steroids. with 40gb, 768 of ram and a overclocked geforce3 ti200 128mb.

The cpu itself was my first cpu!

[collinsup]

i have a 400 with a 4.3gb hard drive and windows 98 se.

[Antphoneigh]

noice!

[eddrush1976]

first ever pc i had amd k62 550mhz

[jswick2006]

lol from tomshardware :)