fsb 533

[kalyan]

please advise me.

the new gen pentium 4(2.4b and above) promise 533mhz of FSB.

my friend told me that in order to attain 533fsb i should have a 4x agp, 533fsb motherboard, 256mb ddr and SCACI interfaced HDD and CD-ROM drive

so far i have:
geforce3 AGP.
40 GB segate barracuda + 4.3 GB segate HDD.
HP 9300i CD-R/RW.
HP 880c printer.
Primax scanner.
17" moniter + keyboard.

all i have to buy now is a processor, ram and motherboard.

i cannot SCACI drive, so does make sence for me to buy a 533Mhz FSB Motherboard and processor.

thanks in advance......

[NookieN]

Your harddrive interface and processor fsb are almost completely unrelated. Whether you have an IDE or SCSI disk controller, it operates over the PCI bus. The PCI bus typically runs at 33 Mhz. While SCSI drives are often better than IDE for a number of reasons, you certainly wouldn't need to get one to take advantage of a 533 fsb processor.

You do of course need a 533Mhz fsb enabled motherboard. However if you're going to put DDR into it, much of that 533Mhz bandwidth will go unused. You would need PC1066 RDRAM to take full advantage of 533. Even with DDR though, 533 fsb can provide some benefit over a 400Mhz bus.

[engjohn]

??? what is scaci?