Maximum System Bus Speed

NuT CrAcKeR wrote:

cpu bus = 333

fsb = 166

333 != 166

!= means "not equal to"

According to your 'logic', the two won't even work with each other.

In reality, both ends operate the same way, I.E. are = (in that sense), so
your equation makes no sense.


NuTs

"David Maynard" wrote in message
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NuT CrAcKeR wrote:


I said the same thing as the post that I responded to, just in not so

many

words.

I wrote the post you responded to and your reply doesn't even address the
point, much less say the same thing.


NuTs

"David Maynard" wrote in message
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NuT CrAcKeR wrote:


CPU bus != system bus

I take it you think there's a salient point in there somewhere.



"David Maynard" wrote in message
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BigBadger wrote:




No it's not 333MHz, it's actually a 166 'MHz' FSB processor....333 is

just



AMD hype to sell the virtues of the DDR bus. Intel do the same trick

but


they multiply the real bus speed by 4x.

Double and quad pumping the bus is not "hype." It's an engineering
technique for transferring data twice, or 4 times for quad, per clock

cycle.



333 is the bus cycle rate, e.g. "Bus Speed," and is the relevant

number

from a performance standpoint.



The maximum that the processor will run at depends on many things. If

it's



un-locked you would be able to lower the multiplier and run it on a

200MHz



FSB, however if its one of the more recent locked models the maximum

FSB


would be in the region of 175-190MHz, depending on how overclockable

the


cpu



is, how good your cooling is etc.


He didn't ask what speed he might be able to push it to. He asked

"What

is


the maximum that the Athlon XP 2800+ supports?" and the "Maximum

System

Bus



Speed" that the processor "supports" is the bus speed it's rated for.

Get a live! Both og you!!