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To: Björn who wrote (35697)	4/13/2001 9:32:56 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) of 275872

"please give me a hint how the 200/266 diff in FSB frequency affects the system performance." Well, this is a question that belongs up there with Pascal's Wager. Because of the large L1 caches, the Athlon is not as sensitive to memory bandwidth as it might otherwise be. But for those things that exceed the caches, the more bandwith the better. Personally, I like to overclock the FSB as much as possible to take care of those situations where the memory bandwidth dominates. Getting up to an FSB of 280MHz or 300MHz is no big trick. With PC150 memory, 320MHz or greater is real easy. YMMV. KT133A motherboards seem to be the best for this. The ECS motherboards have multipliers up to 400MHz, which is the highest I know of. Cheap, too.

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