AMD K6-300

Note: BX Testing was done using the same configuration used in the ASUS P2B Review

Truly amazing, the K6-300 at 100 x 3.0 manages to crank out Pentium II - 300 scores when paired with the 100MHz bus speed on the MVP3C-M, if it weren't for the lack of an intermediate setting between the 2.2v and 2.8v core voltage settings on the board, I'm sure the K6-300 would have no problem making it up to 350MHz, we'll probably have to wait for some more MVP3 boards to be released for that wish to come true.

Pentium II vs K6?  Under Winstone 97 the K6-300 does seem to cut it dead even with the Pentium II in terms of performance, however due to the difference in calculation of the final Winstone score, the K6-300 is outperformed by the Pentium II 300 (both running at a 100MHz bus) under Winstone 98.   For the most part, there isn't much of a difference between the two. 

A 13% increase in Quake 2 performance courtesy of the 100MHz bus speed setting makes the K6 a much more appetizing chip.  Toss in a 3D Graphics Accelerator and prepare to watch the frames fly.   Current MVP3 boards seem to have some problems with the AGP Clock Divider, making 100MHz bus stability while using an AGP video card a difficult thing to predict.  For the Quake 2 tests a PCI Millennium II was used, the AGP Riva 128 wouldn't boot at the 100MHz setting.  This problem should be fixed shortly.