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bigben2k · 09-12-2002, 07:26 AM

Thank you everyone.

I've got another question:
What's the deal with the Athlon memory bandwidth limitation? I keep reading that the Athlon's memory bandwith is lower than what even DDR333 can provide, yet DDR400 reviews show an improvement over DDR333, but a very small one.

I thought that the whole purpose of overclocking was to raise the CPUs bandwith, thereby taking advantage of the faster RAM. Did I miss something?

09-12-2002, 07:26 AM	#29
bigben2k Responsible for 2% of all the posts here. Join Date: May 2002 Location: Texas, U.S.A. Posts: 8,302	Thank you everyone. I've got another question: What's the deal with the Athlon memory bandwidth limitation? I keep reading that the Athlon's memory bandwith is lower than what even DDR333 can provide, yet DDR400 reviews show an improvement over DDR333, but a very small one. I thought that the whole purpose of overclocking was to raise the CPUs bandwith, thereby taking advantage of the faster RAM. Did I miss something? __________________ WBTA (Water Block Testing Alliance) Nordic Hardware WC 101 Last edited by bigben2k; 09-12-2002 at 12:52 PM.