I'm almost embarassed to ask this.
I was recently asked by a customer what the difference between the 200 and 266 bus tbirds. Easily answered. He then asked about the Chaintech 7AIA. I told him that that board only suppots a 100MHz FSB, but will run 133(266) to memory. He then asked if the rest of the board runs slower. I replied that that wasn't the case because the PCI bus is still running at 33 and AGP is still running at 66.
If the bus to memory is 133(266)MHz wide, exactly what are we limiting when we have the cpu running at 100MHz at whatever multiplier??
I really hated to tell the guy that I didn't have a solid answer for him. I guess I gained a bit of respect in his eyes, but I still didn't like having to say,"Idunno."
I was recently asked by a customer what the difference between the 200 and 266 bus tbirds. Easily answered. He then asked about the Chaintech 7AIA. I told him that that board only suppots a 100MHz FSB, but will run 133(266) to memory. He then asked if the rest of the board runs slower. I replied that that wasn't the case because the PCI bus is still running at 33 and AGP is still running at 66.
If the bus to memory is 133(266)MHz wide, exactly what are we limiting when we have the cpu running at 100MHz at whatever multiplier??
I really hated to tell the guy that I didn't have a solid answer for him. I guess I gained a bit of respect in his eyes, but I still didn't like having to say,"Idunno."