EZDuzit
06-15-04, 02:25 PM
I was reading an article about the new KT400 chipset at Tomshardware.com and came across this statement:<BR><BR><BR><BR><< <i>AMD is making a big secret of it, many users dream of it - it's all about increasing the FSB clock from 133 MHz to 166 MHz. We've already shown in a test that this method hardly brings about any advantages in speed. It remains to be seen if a 166 MHz FSB will soon appear. In any case, the KT400 boards (and most of the KT333 boards!) are equipped for this. </i> >><BR><BR><BR><BR>WTF is he talking about? How can that not give a big improvement. FSB's have went from 66 to 100 to 133 and all were improvements. I understand that running your mem at 166 and running you FSB at 133 gives little if any improvement, but my understandings is if your CPU is at 166 and your mem is at 166 you should have major improvements? Am I missing something?<BR><BR>Does anyone have a link to the tests he refers to? I would like to see those results! <BR><BR>Edit: I think he must be comparing the total speed of the cpu. I mean a multipier of 10 x a FSB of 166 as compared to a multiplier of 12.5 x FSB of 133??