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Hello,

My dad has an amd k62-550 with 128mb ram, win98 (will probably upgrade to
2000 or xp for xmas for him) and i also want to give him a better graphics
card because he cant play his tomb raider games.

on the pcworld.co.uk website all the ati radeon 9600 cards say they need min
PII , is the k6-2 the equivelant of a PII.

Just so i know if i should buy it or not.

Cheers - merry Christmas

Max

Max wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My dad has an amd k62-550 with 128mb ram, win98 (will probably upgrade to
> 2000 or xp for xmas for him) and i also want to give him a better graphics
> card because he cant play his tomb raider games.
>
> on the pcworld.co.uk website all the ati radeon 9600 cards say they need min
> PII , is the k6-2 the equivelant of a PII.
>
> Just so i know if i should buy it or not.
>
> Cheers - merry Christmas
>
> Max

If memory serves,it was when AMD came out with the Athlon series of
chips that they were equivalent to PII chips. The K6-2's were more of
the original Pentium class.

"Max" <> Ran in the back door and shouted
newsK3Gb.9460$:

> Hello,
>
> My dad has an amd k62-550 with 128mb ram, win98 (will probably upgrade
> to 2000 or xp for xmas for him) and i also want to give him a better
> graphics card because he cant play his tomb raider games.
>
> on the pcworld.co.uk website all the ati radeon 9600 cards say they
> need min PII , is the k6-2 the equivelant of a PII.
>
> Just so i know if i should buy it or not.
>
> Cheers - merry Christmas
>
> Max
>
>
>

Your AGP connector is most likely AGP 1x; @3.3v
If this is the case, no it probably won't work....
The 9600 is rated for AGP 4x; @1.5v
You'll need a motherboard that supports at least AGP 2x, [1.5v & 3.3v].

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MrToad