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To: Ali Chen who wrote (64471)7/8/1999 11:54:00 PM
From: fyo  Respond to of 1583680
 
There is no (necessary) correlation between external CPU bus frequency (system bus) and memory bus frequency. With the introduction of DRDRAM, the mem. bus will run at 200MHz, regardless of system bus.

The problem with current INTEL motherboards is that these two bus speeds are linked (forced identical). This will not be the case much longer. AND this is not the case with VIA's 'PC133' chipset. It can run the system bus at 100MHz (or 66MHz) and the memory at 133MHz.

--fyodor