View Full Version : What Determines the Front Side Bus?
hwgregg8
10-29-2006, 03:37 AM
What Determines the Front Side Bus On your motherboard. Is the the CPU FSB How do you determines what its going to be?
striker1211
10-29-2006, 05:32 AM
It's complicated. It depends on the CPU.
sevver
10-29-2006, 11:41 AM
Moved to Hardware.
lordfoul
10-29-2006, 04:57 PM
FSB speed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_side_bus#Memory) is related directly to the speed grade of memory that a system must use. The memory bus connects the northbridge and RAM, just as the frontside bus connects the CPU and northbridge. Often, these two buses must operate at the same frequency. Pushing the front-side bus to 170 MHz means pushing the memory to 170 MHz in most cases.
You may not necessarily be dealing with FSB at all depending upon the chipset it could be using HtyperTransport (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTransport#Front-Side_Bus_Replacement) instead.
klitzy
10-29-2006, 11:19 PM
Moved to Hardware.
Haha......
Oh god am I hoping that I am laughing for the right reason