Running a bottleneck?

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acidosmosis

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In the PNP settings of my BIOS:

CPU Speed: 133/133
Core Voltage: 1.744V
CPU Frequency: 133
DRAM Freq: 133

BUT... the AMD Athlon XP Processor that I have has a 266mhz bus. I am running a bottleneck arent I?
 
Nope... You're not bottlenecked... (at least in that regard)

Your motherboard shouldn't be running more than 133Mhz when you've got an athlon with a 266Mhz FSB...

The cpu effectivly doubles the FSB from 133 to 266, so it can transmit/receive data at twice the speed, without putting more stress on the other components...

It's kinda like DDR, which doubles the data rate at the same speed...

This is as good as explanation I can give you without becoming too technical...
 
ok, if i understand those settings right u running pc133 ram wif and athlon xp - BIG bottleneck - get ddr 333 - much better

Steg
 
Originally posted by Steg
ok, if i understand those settings right u running pc133 ram wif and athlon xp - BIG bottleneck - get ddr 333 - much better

Steg

He's running a DDR266, not a PC 133 if you take note of his specs carefully.
 
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