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Memory bandwidth (fsb) and performance....

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KameLeon

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Ok, So I was running my Athlon XP 1700+ at 133x11 = 1436mhz. Today, I decided to overlock my system, and Now it's running fine at 180x9 = 1620mhz. Now, my question is, what is the different between running at 133mhz and 180mhz FSB i.e. 266mhz DDR vs. 360mhz DDR.

How does this affect my actual performance? Will I get higher FPS in games? I get much more higher memory bandwidth results in Sandra, but I couldn't care less about benchmarks. I just want to know what part of my system performance does this effect?

Basically, let's say.. what kinda performance increase do i get by running at 180x9 = 1620 mhz vs. 140x13 = 1620 mhz.

I'm running XP1700+, Asus A7n8x, 256mb PC3200 Geil memory..
 
😉 Well the AthlonXP's below XP2400+ simply don't need a FSB higher than 133/266mhz, gains are very small with slower CPUs (so 180x9 and 140x13 should be the same only 140 should be more stable). For games the gfx card will make a MUCH bigger diff but extra CPU power won't hurt.
 
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