Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community - View Single Post - Can someone clear something up for me regarding FSB speed?

strcrssd · 09-30-2003, 05:56 AM

The FSB is the bus that allows the northbridge to communicate with the processor. The northbridge, in turn, hosts the AGP slots and the Memory.

The "266" that you see is actually a 133Mhz bus that is "double pumped", that is, operating on both the rising and falling edges of the clock to produce an effective 266Mhz.

I'd advise you to NOT overclock the system, it just leads to stability problems. If you feel that a 2000+ (what is that, 1600Mhz ?) processor is insufficient, then perhaps you should go with the next one up,

Others in this forum will certainly spiel about the wonders of overclocking, and how it is has had no effect on their system stability, then will later complain about how windows is so "unstable".

Still others will say that they have no problems, and that windows is stable for them (I'd like to see that someday).

Overclocking is just bad mojo, generally. I've seen kernel compiles fail on what is a "stable" overclocked system too many times to count. While it may appear to be stable, overclocked computers very rarely are.

If you want to squeeze performance out of your system, start by (at least) doubling your RAM, then consider running a higher-performance system, perhaps Gentoo Linux. If you insist on running windows, try stripping it down as much as possible, and run 2k, not XP.

09-30-2003, 05:56 AM	#2 (permalink)
strcrssd Insane Location: Rio Grande Valley, Texas	The FSB is the bus that allows the northbridge to communicate with the processor. The northbridge, in turn, hosts the AGP slots and the Memory. The "266" that you see is actually a 133Mhz bus that is "double pumped", that is, operating on both the rising and falling edges of the clock to produce an effective 266Mhz. I'd advise you to NOT overclock the system, it just leads to stability problems. If you feel that a 2000+ (what is that, 1600Mhz ?) processor is insufficient, then perhaps you should go with the next one up, Others in this forum will certainly spiel about the wonders of overclocking, and how it is has had no effect on their system stability, then will later complain about how windows is so "unstable". Still others will say that they have no problems, and that windows is stable for them (I'd like to see that someday). Overclocking is just bad mojo, generally. I've seen kernel compiles fail on what is a "stable" overclocked system too many times to count. While it may appear to be stable, overclocked computers very rarely are. If you want to squeeze performance out of your system, start by (at least) doubling your RAM, then consider running a higher-performance system, perhaps Gentoo Linux. If you insist on running windows, try stripping it down as much as possible, and run 2k, not XP. __________________ "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)