166mhz+ 1/5 PCI dividers needed
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on May 17, 2002 at 6:28:59 PM
Overclockers has a story on why we need 1/5 PCI dividers. Yep, I need some of that action.
At 133MHz/266MHz FSB, the bandwidth of an Athlon motherboard is 2.1GHz. At 150MHz; it's 2.4GHz. At 166MHz; it's 2.7GHz. The Front Side Bus not only handles memory transfers; it also normally handles all the other communications between other devices in your computer like hard drives and sound cards and network cards. They all have to fit into that FSB space. (That would be Gb/s, not GHZ).
At 133MHz/266MHz FSB, the bandwidth of an Athlon motherboard is 2.1GHz. At 150MHz; it's 2.4GHz. At 166MHz; it's 2.7GHz. The Front Side Bus not only handles memory transfers; it also normally handles all the other communications between other devices in your computer like hard drives and sound cards and network cards. They all have to fit into that FSB space. (That would be Gb/s, not GHZ).