I'm a little behind on how some of the clock settings work on newer systems in relation to the bus but I've done some research, mostly on anandtech, and I think I've figured most of it out. I just need to be told if I'm right or not....
Ok when you're setting the cpu's MHz speed you set the clock and the multiplier. The clock settings not only determines the cpu's speed but the motherboard's bus speed as well while the multiplier only affects the cpu. How can you tell if the motherboard's FSB is going to be the same as your cpu's clock speed, double it, or any other multiplied amount? For example my current motherboard is an MSI K7T Turbo2 and claims to have a 200/266MHz system bus. So I take it since my cpu is currently set to 133mhz X 10 (i think it was 10) then the FSB is doubled that and is running at 266MHz? By knowing what FSB speeds the motherboard claims to run at you can tell if it's 1x or 2x or is there another way? (a 1x would claim to run a 100/133 FSB I suppose)
And is the Front Side Bus speed all I need to be concerned about..... is it the only bus speed affected by clock settings? Are there other parts of the bus I should know about?
Finally, I need to decide on some new ram. I already know I want 512mb and I'm going to try and spend around $100 dollars on pricewatch. I'm definitely not getting rdram for a couple reasons one being my mobo doesn't even support rimms..... so I'm going to get a dimm either sdram or ddr sdram but I need some info. First of all, since SDRAM dimm chip = 168 pin and DDR SDRAM dimm chip = 184 pin does that mean I have to make sure my mobo supports ddr before I try and buy any? I have a feeling mine can't since the specs only mention 6 168 pin slots, nothing about 184 pin. Is there a limit set by motherboards as to how fast they'll let their ram go? For example could I buy a pc150 (150mhz) sdram chip and expect it to run that fast on any motherboard I stick it into, assuming I have the jumper/dip switches/bios settings right? Does dividing the number after PC by 16 give you the MHz speed on ddr ram? I'm guessing since the number is in megabytes per second dividing by 16 bytes give you megahertz per second right? If that's true I'm wondering why they even bother with that number since the MHz is the only property to change with each speed while the 128 bit bandwidth remains the same. Why not just use mhz like they did with SDR?
Sorry for asking so many noobish questions but it's been awhile since my last upgrade......
Ok when you're setting the cpu's MHz speed you set the clock and the multiplier. The clock settings not only determines the cpu's speed but the motherboard's bus speed as well while the multiplier only affects the cpu. How can you tell if the motherboard's FSB is going to be the same as your cpu's clock speed, double it, or any other multiplied amount? For example my current motherboard is an MSI K7T Turbo2 and claims to have a 200/266MHz system bus. So I take it since my cpu is currently set to 133mhz X 10 (i think it was 10) then the FSB is doubled that and is running at 266MHz? By knowing what FSB speeds the motherboard claims to run at you can tell if it's 1x or 2x or is there another way? (a 1x would claim to run a 100/133 FSB I suppose)
And is the Front Side Bus speed all I need to be concerned about..... is it the only bus speed affected by clock settings? Are there other parts of the bus I should know about?
Finally, I need to decide on some new ram. I already know I want 512mb and I'm going to try and spend around $100 dollars on pricewatch. I'm definitely not getting rdram for a couple reasons one being my mobo doesn't even support rimms..... so I'm going to get a dimm either sdram or ddr sdram but I need some info. First of all, since SDRAM dimm chip = 168 pin and DDR SDRAM dimm chip = 184 pin does that mean I have to make sure my mobo supports ddr before I try and buy any? I have a feeling mine can't since the specs only mention 6 168 pin slots, nothing about 184 pin. Is there a limit set by motherboards as to how fast they'll let their ram go? For example could I buy a pc150 (150mhz) sdram chip and expect it to run that fast on any motherboard I stick it into, assuming I have the jumper/dip switches/bios settings right? Does dividing the number after PC by 16 give you the MHz speed on ddr ram? I'm guessing since the number is in megabytes per second dividing by 16 bytes give you megahertz per second right? If that's true I'm wondering why they even bother with that number since the MHz is the only property to change with each speed while the 128 bit bandwidth remains the same. Why not just use mhz like they did with SDR?
Sorry for asking so many noobish questions but it's been awhile since my last upgrade......
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