Computer Chess Club Archives

Search

Messages

Subject: Re: Frontside bus - how important?

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 17:59:00 03/24/03

Go up one level in this thread

On March 24, 2003 at 20:02:04, Russell Reagan wrote:

>I am looking at notebook computers and I am considering two that are essentially
>the same, with a few differences. They are both P4 2.4 GHz, 512 MB RAM. One is a
>Toshiba and one is a Hewlett-Packard. The Toshiba has a FSB of 533 MHz, and the
>HP has a FSB of 266. The HP has a few other things I like, such as better
>graphics card, more ports for externals, and so on. How significant is the FSB
>difference?

Impossible that a P4 has an FSB of 266MHz.  You must be giving for one system
the memory bus speed (133MHz DDR = 266MHz) and for the other the actual FSB
(133MHz QDR = 533MHz).

• Re: Frontside bus - how important? Russell Reagan 18:06:37 03/24/03
  • Re: Frontside bus - how important? Jeremiah Penery 12:25:37 03/25/03
    • Re: Frontside bus - how important? Russell Reagan 14:17:40 03/25/03
      • Re: Frontside bus - how important? Jay Urbanski 23:10:02 03/25/03
      • Re: Frontside bus - how important? Jeremiah Penery 18:11:09 03/25/03

This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.