Processor Speed

[kljucd1]

Hi,
This may be a lame quetsion, but, i will ask anyway. Take my processor for example (piii 500), which represents the speed that the processor is running at the 500mhz or the 100mhz/133mhz whichever it is, what does the other represent.
Thanks Daniel...

[Steve R Jones]

100mhz/133mhz = bus speed:

bus

(1) A collection of wires through which data is transmitted from one part of a computer to another. You can think of a bus as a highway on which data travels within a computer. When used in reference to personal computers, the term bus usually refers to internal bus. This is a bus that connects all the internal computer components to the CPU and main memory. There's also an expansion bus that enables expansion boards to access the CPU and memory.

All buses consist of two parts -- an address bus and a data bus. The data bus transfers actual data whereas the address bus transfers information about where the data should go.

The size of a bus, known as its width, is important because it determines how much data can be transmitted at one time. For example, a 16-bit bus can transmit 16 bits of data, whereas a 32-bit bus can transmit 32 bits of data.

Every bus has a clock speed measured in MHz. A fast bus allows data to be transferred faster, which makes applications run faster. On PCs, the old ISA bus is being replaced by faster buses such as PCI.

Nearly all PCs made today include a local bus for data that requires especially fast transfer speeds, such as video data. The local bus is a high-speed pathway that connects directly to the processor.

[kljucd1]

Hi,
That was exactely the information that i was looking for, thanks.
Daniel...

[Richard_Cranium72]

kljucd1, there are no "lame" questions.

I've been posting here under different pen names since spring of 99.

There are members who are real EXPERTS in their areas of experience who are,, uneducated in some other areas.

So the only lame questions are the ones that are not asked.

DrVette