Hello, Just looking through some motherboard manuals (I wish I had got around to doing that research project on MB for class:-( Anyway, the processor talks through the fsb to the North Bridge chip at 100/133/200 MHz, the NB talks to RAM at 100/133/200/(266?) and also to the AGP at 66MHz which can be quad pumped meaning two transfers of data per clock edge (like clocking within the clock). The NB talks down to the PCI bus at 33MHz which supplies the promise, 6 slots and the South Bridge. The SB talks to ISA, mouse, Kbd, USB, game ports, COM ports, LPT etc at speeds less than 33 MHz. The fsb speeds are an actual asset for AGP and RAM to CPU. Thank you to all who contributed opinions to my question. I am going to hold of for a week or two to look more into selecting a quality decent MB first priority and then maybe a 1G TBird if I can afford it. To answer a previous Q. I am upgrading from a p1 200MHz 133SDRAM. As I have 2 HD, 2 CD and ram is cheap, I will probably try to make 2 systems out of this one so my dad can ditch his 33MHz 486:-) Cheers, Doug -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 22:22:57 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MB & CPU Suggestion Please On Tuesday 28 August 2001 21:00, you wrote: > On Tuesday 28 August 2001 05:20 pm, Dennis Myers escribi�: > > Also, from what I have read the Athlon is easier to keep cool due to > > a bit more mm of surface area. I.E. less chance of cooking it. > > Todays prices don't see a lot of difference in the two so I would go > > with the Athlon. > > Don't know where that cooler idea came from? Tbird's run hot, hotter > than Durons. Bigger caches, more voltage, more wattage, more heat. > Facts are any of the newer processors run hot. Adequate cooling is a > must for stablility. The cheapest generic heatsink/fans are OK, but > the case must be also kept very cool. Intel cpu's run cooler, but > they're also much less tolerant of overheating. BUT... > > Yes, with 1.4 Tbirds selling for $120, and equaling the perfomance > of 2 gig Pentium 4's just out. Seems like the best deal, no?. Maybe > not. Processor mhz aren't everything. Most all peripheals, including > the harddrives still run on the 33.3mhz PCI bus. Despite all the > hoopla 'bout D(ouble) D(ata) R(ate) this and DDR that, including AGP , > and Win-RAID, and <whatever> the current advertised fad is ... > everything still runs thru the good ol' slow 33.3mhz PCI bus. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- Thought I read that about heat on the overclockers site, maybe I got it backwards. Nope, looked again and just didn't get it right, it's Durons run hotter than thunderbirds. My Bad. At any rate, does that mean that the adverts about 200mhz fsb on some mobo is just smoke and mirrors also? I have a soyo SY-K7VTA PRO that says 200mhz fsb but nothing about PCI bus. Soooo. That shows what all I know about MoBos. Time to start doing some research on Motherboard/Mainboard nomenclature and specs. Still on the learninig curve (steep side) : ) -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 ___________________________________________________________________________ Visit http://www.visto.com. Find out how companies are linking mobile users to the enterprise with Visto.
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