I posit the opposite. Super Socket 7 motherboards were a terrible choice aimed at suckers trapped by sunk cost fallacy.

>along with an agp slot

Non working AGP slot, or rather working until you tried to play 3d games with 3D accelerator actually using AGP features, then you got crashes no matter the chipset (VIA, ALI). Solution was switching to x1 mode, disabling sideband signaling or just swapping to a 3dfx card.

1998 with the release of Intel Celeron killed any possible K6 advantage https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/hotline/981226/p_cpu.ht... ~120 yen to $1

Celeron 300A MHz 10,440 ~$90

K6-2/300 10,850 ~100

https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/hotline/981226/newitem....

ZIDA BXi98-ATX (440BX,ATX,AGP1,PCI4,PCI/ISA1,ISA1,DIMM3) 15,800 ~$140

FIC PA2013 (MVP3,ATX,2MB,AGP1,PCI3,PCI/ISA1,ISA1,DIMM3) 2MB cache 13,800 ~$130

>amd k6 550 cpu

thats year 2000

>The only set of cpus not compatible were the slot and socket 370 cpus. But they were pretty expensive anyway

You are comparing bottom of the barrel AMD CPUs with top spec Pentium 3s. Correct comparison should be against Celerons. January 2000 prices https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/hotline/20000617/p_cpu....

K6-III/450 14,550 $140

K6-III/400 8,980 $85

Celeron 300A $57

300A@450MHz beats K6-III/450@550MHz in every possible benchmark.

by June 17 2000 https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/hotline/20000617/p_cpu....

Celeron 533A 10,570 $100

Celeron 366MHz 7,700 $73

Duron 600MHz 9,990 $95

K6-III/450 24,800 $236 !??!!?

K6-III/400 14,800 $140

K6-2/550 7,949 $76

K6-2/533 5,970 $57

K6-2/500 5,350 $50

$76 K6-2/550 is slower than $73 Celeron 366, not to mention pulverized in benchmarks if you happened to find Celeron capable of 100MHz fsb.

Old slow ram makes K6 setup even slower. You would think the benefit were much cheaper motherboards, but even that wasnt the case. SS7 boards started at ~$75 while Abit BE6-2 was $90 and cheapest 440BX ones (P2XBL) $65. K6-2/550 3DNow! (100MHz Bus) $90 vs Celeron 500 $93 https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-2000-07/page/n3...

Slot1 made much more sense, only release of K7 made AMD competitive again with Duron on the low end and Athlon way ahead of P3.