Originally Posted by Jori Front Side Bus.. Basically from my understanding it carries data here and there... The bigger the FPS the faster your computer is. |
Originally Posted by NoAffinity buses are information highways. The mobo's front side bus is the bus that runs between the CPU and RAM. A faster FSB does not necessarily mean more efficient computing. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/system_bus.html |
Originally Posted by Zipnogg what's the difference between RAM, memory, and FSB? is it true that in A64 and P4 systems, the higher FSB the better? and what does it mean by low timing memory boosts up performance? |
Originally Posted by Zipnogg what's north/southbridge? and what's PCP? |
Originally Posted by RunningRioT in pentium 4 and athlon xp systems, the northbridge is the chipset (intel 915, via, nforce2) it is the memory controller hub, and also controls the agp, on budget motherboards, it also has integrated graphics. the southbridge is only present on p4, and XP, and athlon64 via chipset systems, it controls the kyboard, mouse, usb, and the pci slots. on athlon 64 nforce systems, the south bridge is eliminated, because most of the load on the northbridge is taken off by moving the memory controller to the cpu. on nforce systems, the chipset is taking care of the southbridge+northbridge combined, just without the memory controller.. i have no clue what pcp is. sounds like a drub. |