What is HyperTransport Bus?

[overclockingoodness]

What is it and how will it help me in my overclocking endevors?

I have Socket 939 3000+ Winchester with Abit AV8 Motherboard.

Thx.

 

[Davegod]

http://www.hypertransport.org/

HyperTransport technology is an optimized board-level architecture delivering lowest possible latency, highest bandwidth, design flexibility, performance scalability and PCI compatibility. HyperTransport delivers all of these capabilities within a framework that enables board-level designers to develop system architectures free of cumbersome constraints and performance burdens.

The widespread adoption of HyperTransport across a broad spectrum of high performance product sectors ranging from consumer devices to personal computers, network equipment and supercomputers, is tangible proof of the power and flexibility of the HyperTransport architecture.

In many cases, HyperTransport's integration extends into the processor, such as in AMD's Opteron and Athlon64 64-bit x86 processors, Transmeta's Efficeon x86 processor, Broadcom's BCM1250 64-bit MIPS processor, and PMC-Sierra's RM9000 64-bit MIPS processor family. In these instances, HyperTransport operates as a fully integrated front-side bus and the traditional NorthBridge-SouthBridge structure is eliminated.

In other instances, such as in Apple's G5 PowerMac, HyperTransport is used as an integrated, high performance I/O bus that pipes PCI, PCI-X, USB, Firewire and audio/video links through the system. In all cases, HyperTransport replaces the overlapping processor and local I/O buses of earlier generation systems with a unified, high bandwidth, low latency, and low-cost architecture that is scalable, low-cost and extensible to future product generations.

While other I/O technologies certainly have their place in the market and provide their own benefits to their intended targeted applications, HyperTransport technology has been, is, and will continue to be the lowest latency, highest performance solution for board-level systems.

 

[elecrzy]

its a point-2-point bus. used to connect processors to chipsets, chipsets to chipsets, processor to processor. its a very versatile bus. it really depends on your motherboard. if the mobo has a agp/pci lock, then you'll be able to oc, otherwise its pointless.