RADAR1797
01-12-2000, 04:51 PM
Bill,
You are doing well (oh by the way three beers at noon?) FSB stands for Front Side Bus. This is the bus speed that your memory runs on and is the speed the CPU interacts with your system. Your CPU speed is determined by your multiplier times your FSB. For a PII 400 your multiplier is 4 (ie 4*100MHz=400MHz). Thanks to Intel, your multiplier is locked, so the only way to change your CPU speed is to increase your FSB (ie 4*112 = 448). On the otherside of the coin, your CPU is faster, but so is your memory (now at 112MHz), PCI cards (112/3 = 37MHz) and your AGP port (112*2/3=75MHz). This means that if your peripherals can handle it, you get over all system imporvement, but that is sometimes a big if. 112 is normally safe though. 117 and 124 are getting risky. Hope this helps.
-RADAR
You are doing well (oh by the way three beers at noon?) FSB stands for Front Side Bus. This is the bus speed that your memory runs on and is the speed the CPU interacts with your system. Your CPU speed is determined by your multiplier times your FSB. For a PII 400 your multiplier is 4 (ie 4*100MHz=400MHz). Thanks to Intel, your multiplier is locked, so the only way to change your CPU speed is to increase your FSB (ie 4*112 = 448). On the otherside of the coin, your CPU is faster, but so is your memory (now at 112MHz), PCI cards (112/3 = 37MHz) and your AGP port (112*2/3=75MHz). This means that if your peripherals can handle it, you get over all system imporvement, but that is sometimes a big if. 112 is normally safe though. 117 and 124 are getting risky. Hope this helps.
-RADAR