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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (155103)	1/12/2002 10:35:12 PM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

If you overclock a Pentium 4 front side bus, you get appreciable differences in performance. Several web sites have tested and confirmed this. I have seen other reviews where they overclock an Athlon, but it doesn't seem to get the same favorable performance advantages with the extra bandwidth. I would say that if the results from these tests match real world increases in bandwidth, then your statement about the Athlon being more efficient with extra bandwidth may not be true. Message 16889130 Bunny has found that a 210FSB Athlon XP running at 2.2GHZ outperforms a 205FSB AThlon XP running at 2.25GHZ. www16.big.or.jp

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (155103)	1/12/2002 10:54:25 PM
From: Charles Gryba	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

wbmw, well of course, when the P4 gets more bandwidth its memory subsystem (i850) can provide enough data to it. When the athlon fsb is overclocked its single channel memory subsystem cannot do the same. Did you notice the jump in performance the athlon got when better chipsets came along? For example, going from kt266->sis735->kt266a etc? They actually allowed the Athlon to beat the P4 in some benchmarks it was losing previously. So the CPU alone does not provide an accurate enough picture of system performance. The question remains, will AMD pump up the athlon fsb to 200 and are the chipsets ready to support that? From what you are saying, AMD has no plans to do so and my opinion is that it would be very foolish not to do so unless hammer is around the corner which does not seem to be the case. If I were in charge now, I would be pushing for the 200fsb as a backup plan ( and I would also be looking for a partner to come up with a dual channel chipset ). C