fsb

[IntelUser101]

what does fsb/front side bus mean? like if u have 533 or 800 fsb..is it really a big issue when u game like not too hardcore but sort of like age of empires or dungeon siege or somethin? post me back quick

 

[pc_boy]

FSB is what calculates your MHZ. Let say you have a 400MHZ FSB with a 11 multiplier, then 11x200 (because when you do FSB you multiply 1/2) 11x200=2200MHZ, also 2.2GHZ. It is better to have a low multiplyer and high FSB, which is why AMD powns intel because athlon 64 processors have 1600MHZ FSB and intels only 800 and that is why they suck.

 

[DJ-CHRIS]

AMD's dont have a FSB, that's the hypertransport. And mine is 2000mhz hypertransport

On all computers the FSB controls the speed of the ram and CPU and connects stuff.

On Intel the FSB handles the memory and all the connections unlike AMD which uses it's (faster) hypertransport which completly bypasses the FSB on the north bridge

 

[Nubius]

It is better to have a low multiplyer and high FSB, which is why AMD powns intel because athlon 64 processors have 1600MHZ FSB and intels only 800 and that is why they suck.

That's not correct

As Chris said it's not FSB it's hyper transport for AMDs and intels have like 1000+ now but that's still different than AMDs.....

All AMD64's have the same CPU HTT which is set at 200, so they don't have 'high FSB's and low multipliers'

They are all at 200HTT and come with differentiating multis that'll calculate the CPU's overall speed.

The motherboard for the AMD64 is what supports the 1600 or 2000HTT with its HTT Link speed multiplier.