p4 400Mhz FSB

[Mord-Sith]

Ok this should be and easy question to anwer if a p4 runs at 400Mhz fsb and RDRAM is 800Mhz where does the extra 400 go?

[Mord-Sith]

oh cmon somone know the answer

[Mord-Sith]

lol this is getting rediculous ... I think im being ignored ... dont you guys like me ?

[Zuck Gou :)]

You've asked a question no one knows the answer to, thats a first

[ebola]

i thought the p4 had 4 100mhz buses. anyways i think you can get 600 mhz rdram too.

i suppose you can have pc 180 memory but how many pc's do 180 fsb

[zoopa_man]

I have no clue. Maybe it's gremlin food ? ???

[zoopa_man]

Now you got me thinking AGGggg.


Does it run dual 400mhz busses to the ram ?
That's the only thing I can think of.

[Pinky]

It's like running 100FSB on 133 RAM.

To overclock silly!

Yes, there are 4 distinct channels of memory all run through the same chip (instead of 4 seperate chips), which is why it's clocked so high. With PC800 you can overclock all 4 bus channels instead of dropping to 3 channels in order to achieve the same OC.

Right now P4 overclockers say that the RAM or PCI cards are holding back the overclocks, as these chips are capable of going much higher than 2 GHZ!! Smokin'!!

** I should note that my answer was not a guess or pseculation, as I was designing a P4 system as a possible upgrade (but due to current pricing and no 64bit application support, I opted to cheaply upgrade to tops of the P3s instead). If you go to some of the techie sites and read P4 motherboard reviews, they often explain more than just the motherboard.

[JigPu]

I think I heard something about dual channels to the RAM... Though I'm not sure if that was RDRAM, DDR, or just my brain spazzing out again :)...

JigPu