Anand heeft het een Cool K6-3 500 doos gereviewed. Kryotech heeft z'n koelsysteem iets aangepast zodat de processor nu direkt in z'n socket zit, wat wel tot gevolg heeft dat de moederplank niet meer te verwijderen is. De wazige problemen met WinNT zijn nu ook opgelost. Wat blijf tis de belachelijk hoge prijs ($1250) voor 100MHz extra megahertzen:
At the heart of the system, chirping away inside the KryoCavity, is AMD's newly released K6-3 processor. The K6-3 used in the engineering sample AnandTech tested was a 400MHz processor, rated for operation at a 2.4v core voltage, and equipped with 256KB of on-chip L2 cache running at clock speed (as are all K6-3 processors). Because of the 400MHz clock speed of the K6-3 Kryotech used in the system, the final speed of the Cool K6-3 turned out to be 500MHz, and unfortunately the system would not run reliably enough at any major increases above 500MHz to be considered viable options. Kryotech is working on a K6-3 450 based solution as well, however the chances are that a K6-3 450 would make it up to 600MHz, at the current manufacturing yields from AMD, are very slim. At most, a 450MHz part would see the time of day at 550MHz, but that's about all unless the quality of AMD's K6-3 yields increase.
Het complete verhaaltje vind je in Anand's review.
