Hi folks,
I was wondering if there's a significant difference in emulation speed between K6-2 and K6-3 CPUs for the same clock. I know in other stuff the K6-3 wins, but not sure how much advantage UAE takes of the onboard L2. If someone has done a comparison between an early cacheless celeron and a PII that might be valid also.
The reason I'm asking is I've got this neat little Iopener thin client machine that can be modded and expanded. I've got both K6-2s and a K6-3 I could upgrade it with. However, the K6-3 would be significantly more work, due to needing higher core voltage. May also run into more cooling and power issues with it than the K6-2 (Which I have a 1.8V Vcore version of) Max clock I can run with either is 400Mhz I think.
Also curious about the RAM requirements of KX Light in the Amiga Forever distribution. This machine may be limited to 64MB of RAM, and I was wondering if I'd be better off with that or a stripped down install of Win98SE which I've previously had a version of WinUAE running quite happilly on top of with only 32MB. Also wonder if it has the full dose of knoppix hardware support, iopener chipset/gfx is not common, though supported by knoppix and it needs USB drivers for networking.
I know it's not an ideal UAE configuration, but would make a great little "Amiga" sidekick machine on my desk.