FSB Question
FSB Question
How important is FSB? I'm looking at building a new rig and the most significant difference (besides price) between a P4 and an AMD appears to be that the P4 mobo's have 533 FSB and the AMD's seem to mostly be 233 FSB. I have an AMD now but was thinking about building a P4.
well the amd's are sporting a 333 fsb as there top of line chip (the barton) which is a DDR333 or 166 mhz x2....the intels are now sporting 800 fsb as their flagship chip which is really 200 mhz x4 (4 seperate pipelines running at 200 mhz each)...Both chips will give you great performance...even though the amd's arent clocked as high 'mhz wise' they actually do more with each clock cycle than an intel chip...so it really even's itself out though i would think the 800 fsb P4's will have a slight edge but will cost a few more beans.
As far as fsb goes yes fsb does matter, as the higher the fsb is the more information gets moved thru the communication process between processor, ram and other components. By definition the FSB is the speed at which all the components communicate with the processor itself.
As far as fsb goes yes fsb does matter, as the higher the fsb is the more information gets moved thru the communication process between processor, ram and other components. By definition the FSB is the speed at which all the components communicate with the processor itself.