is amd inferior to intel pentium?

[ieh4f]

ok l have just bought a notebook with cpu of AMD-K6-2 processor 450 MHz and 196 ram, the guy who sold it to me told me that it is as fast as a p3 computer, but l cant play the same movie smoothly, even with ffdshow, directx 9c and mplayer 6.4, while my old p2 366 with only 64 ram can, with the same three softwares used, l am so pissed now, either that guy lied to me or something else is wrong, could someone tell me how fast exactly is AMD-K6-2 processor? what is the equalent Intel CPU of it? Intel PIII? and what about its Mhz? is it the same Mhz used in intel pentium?

[greymalkin]

oh man...

ok...is your p2 a desktop? This will make a difference. The hd speed on laptops are considerably slower than desktops and could cause your movie not to play as smoothly.

what are the operating systems on both machine? that could also make quite a difference...

How fast is the AMD-K62 450mhz? What color is my white horse? It is 450mhz...mhz is a standard measurment for frequencies and is not different for one platform or the other. There are, however, other factors that come into play...like every other component of your computer :P..the hard drive, memory, motherboard and operating system are all big players as well as differences in the chip architecture between AMD and Intel...

I would say by the time the K6-2's were around they were pretty similar to the speed of the Intel at the same clock speed. there are too many variables and unknowns in your post to even begin to diagnose the actual problem....

[vitualis]

Sorry, but the K6-2's were rather inferior to a standard Pentium III.

Regards.

[ROF]

The difference is more than likely in the MoBo. Your processor is faster than the P2-366, but it may not be able to function as fast because of the MoBo the K6-2 resides in. The k6-2 is comparable to P2's in the same speed class, while K6-3's are comparable to their P3 counterparts all things considered equal. One thing nice about K6-2's compared to P2's is their power consumption is considerably less and their ambient operating temperature is almost 10 degrees cooler.

[junkmalle]

Not exactly the same CPUs but you'll get the idea. The K6-2 is pretty poor:

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/19990223/index.html

[ROF]

The AMD K6-2 400+ uses the newer CXT-core and onboard L2 cache.

[Halm1]

Might want to check to see if the DVD Rom drive is in DMA mode on the K6. PIO mode could make for jerky playback.

[akrako1]

Ignore any DVD-Drive issues -> extract the disc to your hdd on the laptop, and play from there... also keep in mind that most laptops have 5400rpm hdd's, while desktops for frequently have 7200rpm drives (faster data access).

[jimmalenko]

also keep in mind that most laptops have 5400rpm hdd's, while desktops for frequently have 7200rpm drives (faster data access).

A laptop of this vintage would have more than likely had a 4200rpm HDD

[junkmalle]

More CPU comparisons:

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030217/index.html

And keep in mind laptops are generally designed for low power consumption (long battery life), not performance. They use slower versions everything -- RAM, hard drives, video controller, chipsets, etc.

K6 processors had really poor floating point performance. That shouldn't be a problem for playing video though.

[guns1inger]

You got screwed. Once AMD got to the athlon stage they started to really give the pentiums a run for their money. Top of the line AMD 64 and dual cores will eat anything in the pentium range, with possibly one exception - games programmed by Id are tuned for pentiums running nvidia gfx cards, and will always perform better on that platform.

[MJA]

at that time Intel CPU's were alot better than AMD.new hardrive (40GB 5400 RPM samsung for $63 from newegg.com) and a stick of memory (I think PC100/133) will help alot, also try to use an old DVD player software coz they use less resources than the new ones + try under the BIOS to dadecate more memory to Video

memory link
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Manufactory=&PropertyCodeValue=529%3A786...ubmit=Property

with memory its a hit or miss when it comes to compatiblity so u have to keep that in mind. crucial.com also is a good site for memory

hardrives
just be sure its 5400 RPM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Manufactory=&PropertyCodeValue=0&Propert...ubmit=Property

[MJA]

lol nevermind I didn't know u live in ASIA

[psx_pirate]

I had a similar problem with a K6 ... however i discovered that it was nothing to do with the cpu the problem was the onboard sound ... go to bios setting and disable onboard soundcard .... play dvd (there won't be any sound obviously) if the picture runs smoothly then its the soundcard stealing resources ... fitting a new soundcard instead of using o/b sound will solve your problem

As you are using a laptop you may have to opt for a usb sound system if there is no other way of adding a soundcard to the laptop

[Bjs]

1: Amd cpu's are not inferior too intel cpu's , just built around different idea's of what is considered more important .

Amd cpu's are more designed too multimedia performance .

2: Notebooks clock back too conserver battery power .

Make sure when playing dvd you are connected to mains power .

3: Remove ffdshow

It will slow things down , and is designed for later , updated cpu's .

For your old laptop , install any dvd ripping tool you want , best is still smartripper , install any dvd player software you have , then install ifoedit and ac3_filters , and load the ripped dvd ifo file into ifoedit and choose play .

Rip dvd to hard drive ...

This is less intensive on memmory .

4: Dont bother with enabling DMA mode , it's useless and in 98% of all case's , it either makes no difference being enabled , and in the other 2% , it completely makes a mess of things , though this is rare now .

As for running a dvd on 450mhz amd processor , the jerkiness experienced is caused by the onboard video . increasing the amount of memmory made available to video wont improve things .

Some notebooks have video memmory upgrade packages available , but you will need to check if your's is designed for such upgrades , if not , you have been out of luck in the purchase .

Lastly , onboard audio dose not have hardware buffers as those built into actual sound cards , this is why so many new games drop out too desktop for no reason ... adding any addon audio sound device too a notebook is just a wate of time , with such a low processor speed "450" ... it would , if available , most certainly cause a server drain on resource's during playback

[vitualis]

2: Notebooks clock back too conserver battery power .

Make sure when playing dvd you are connected to mains power .

I don't think that the K6-2s did any "clocking back".

4: Dont bother with enabling DMA mode , it's useless and in 98% of all case's , it either makes no difference being enabled , and in the other 2% , it completely makes a mess of things , though this is rare now .

???

Sorry, but that is bad advice. PIO mode requires the CPU to do disk transfers and access and definitely slows down the PC by stealing CPU cycles. If your drives are capable of DMA and it isn't turned on, you should definitely turn it on.

As for running a dvd on 450mhz amd processor , the jerkiness experienced is caused by the onboard video . increasing the amount of memmory made available to video wont improve things .

I doubt very much that video memory has much to do with it. CPU, disk access as well as bad drivers (e.g., video drivers or audio drivers) are much more likely culprits.

Regards.