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- Dec 2, 2008
Hi all,
This would be good as a poll - but I can't set one up for some reason!
Anyway - For years the FSB determined the speeds of our CPU's - if you had an FSB of more than 500Mhz - people instantly knew you had an insane OC on. Now with the new 1156/1366 sockets there's the new QPI - not that much different - but if someone says they've got a 185Mhz QPI - you think - "if it's got a 21x multiplier, times 21 by 185 etc..." it takes ages!! not just like FSB - 400*9 = 3.6Ghz - easy!!! FSB was quad pumped too - so an FSB of 400Mhz would equal 1600Mhz - the extreme editions - or 333*4 = 1333Mhz.
Do you guys prefer FSB or QPI - I know we are talking about 2 different technologies here - but in terms of ease of use - working out speeds - etc...
I prefer the FSB it would have been nice if intel hadn't of ditched it in favour of the QPI - but like I said - 2 different technologies at work....
Even if I had an i7 975 @ 4.5Ghz I would still prefer using the FSB to overclock - instead of the QPI and BSCLK.
Please share your views!
Thanks
This would be good as a poll - but I can't set one up for some reason!
Anyway - For years the FSB determined the speeds of our CPU's - if you had an FSB of more than 500Mhz - people instantly knew you had an insane OC on. Now with the new 1156/1366 sockets there's the new QPI - not that much different - but if someone says they've got a 185Mhz QPI - you think - "if it's got a 21x multiplier, times 21 by 185 etc..." it takes ages!! not just like FSB - 400*9 = 3.6Ghz - easy!!! FSB was quad pumped too - so an FSB of 400Mhz would equal 1600Mhz - the extreme editions - or 333*4 = 1333Mhz.
Do you guys prefer FSB or QPI - I know we are talking about 2 different technologies here - but in terms of ease of use - working out speeds - etc...
I prefer the FSB it would have been nice if intel hadn't of ditched it in favour of the QPI - but like I said - 2 different technologies at work....
Even if I had an i7 975 @ 4.5Ghz I would still prefer using the FSB to overclock - instead of the QPI and BSCLK.
Please share your views!
Thanks