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An oddball idea hit me the other day and I thought I'd share it w/ everyone, even though it is stupid. I don’t have the stuff to try it out but maybe someone can tell me why it won’t work.
Here's the question I was pondering, how come AMD Athlon XP's can’t use something like "800FSB" such as Intel's, just 400x2 though.
Here's what I thought of, the Athlon bus since the very beginning of the architecture has been a 64-bit DDR like bus, but now-a-days there's duel-channel DDR chipsets giving it 128bit memory bus, now what good is an 128-bus if the cpu only has a 64-bit bus.
Now, since nForce's have a locked PCI-clock, what would happen if you used the 2-1 memory speed setting with DDR400 memory, I doubt this is even theoretically possible, but couldn't you set a literal 400Mhz FSB w/ 200Mhz Duel-Channel RAM, then there would be a real match between the memory bus and the cpu bus, except the memory system would have to be seriously re-tuned so that it could sync up.
Here's the question I was pondering, how come AMD Athlon XP's can’t use something like "800FSB" such as Intel's, just 400x2 though.
Here's what I thought of, the Athlon bus since the very beginning of the architecture has been a 64-bit DDR like bus, but now-a-days there's duel-channel DDR chipsets giving it 128bit memory bus, now what good is an 128-bus if the cpu only has a 64-bit bus.
Now, since nForce's have a locked PCI-clock, what would happen if you used the 2-1 memory speed setting with DDR400 memory, I doubt this is even theoretically possible, but couldn't you set a literal 400Mhz FSB w/ 200Mhz Duel-Channel RAM, then there would be a real match between the memory bus and the cpu bus, except the memory system would have to be seriously re-tuned so that it could sync up.