Hi someone is selling a secondhand AMD K-6 II 500, I want to know how much can I overclock it if I buy 512mb ram and a seagate cheetah 80gb hard drive?

I'm afraid the question you ask doesn't make any sense. The quantity of RAM and size of the hard drive doesn't have anything to do with the overclockability of the CPU. A Socket 7 motherboard may have difficulty handling large memory volumes and an 80gb hdd, it depends on the motherboard. I don't know whether you mean you want to buy a CPU or an entire system. A K6-II isn't going to overclock too far, and being overclocked won't speed it up that much anyway as it doesn't have any L2 cache. A K6-2+, K6-3 or K6-III+ would be faster if you're looking for an upgrade.

The memory and the hard drive may be useful, but there's some unknowns as eddaweaver suggested.

What do you want to do with the system at the end of the day? See, the technology has moved on a bit and K6-II systems are OK for only general-purpose stuff like typing letters, web browsing and cd-burning. For games, well even with a fast grafix cards new games struggle.

If you want a better, deal, buy a cheap Duron setup ideally new. If you want to transfer the memory, you may be able to use it in an older Socket A board that can accept this older type of RAM.

The K6-II uses SDRAM. New boards use DDR SDRAM.

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