[Q] please explain 200Mhz FSB

[ExplodingBoy]

This is probably a stupid question. Apologies in advance. I thought Atholon Tbirds were 200FSB. But when I boot up my system, the BIOS screen says 10x100MHz. I have a 1GHz Athlon Tbird in an ECS K7VZA mobo.

Is 200FSB some kind of trick or am I missing out?

 

[tontod]

If you look at this article, you will see that memory bus operates at 100 mhz bus but actually delivers 200 mhz between chipset and CPU. This is mentioned at the bottom of that page.

 

[smp]

Imagine you were breathing in and out at the same time.. so for every breath you took (I'll be missin you) you move twice as much air.. but you're still only moving your lungs so much right.. so you're getting double the result, but only doing half the work.. well, that's my analogy of it anyways.. just have to keep practicing that ddr breathing..

 

[ExplodingBoy]

Thanks for the info and the link to the article!

 

[CTho9305]

Did you birds actually do the DDR breathing smp described? Whether they're breathing in or out, there is a constant flow of air across their lungs (they have pockets of air or something like that).