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Originally Posted by Fr3nzy
I'm just curious if integrated FSB is actually running at the speed it is supposed to. Is it sort of like 64-bit where the technology isn't really supported yet? Or is something like FSB a feature that doesn't require something specially formatted or designed to be used?
Another question I have is how do CPUs effectivly operate with such low FSB? My friend has an AMD 2800 and runs HL2 fine. I don't really get how this works since his FSB is 333MHz. Does the FSB not effect the overall speed as I'm making it out to? If the FSB really played a big role in overall output of the cpu, then wouldn't 333Mhz CPU FSBs be very slow computers?
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FSB is not all that makes the CPU "fast" as Intel clearly showed us in the past. The FPU's (Floting Point Unit) efficiency is what makes the CPU really work well. AMD Kicked Intels ass there for a while (early P4's) with half the mhz and FSB because it's FPU was more efficent. In fact Intels old P3 chips were beating out the first P4's even though the P4's were 1000mhz faster and twice the FSB speed.
333mhz FSB is really 133FSB duel channel ext... The intel 800mhz FSB is really 200mhz quad channel.... ext....