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Offline Grits

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AMD 64 1600 or 2000 FSB?
« on: January 17, 2005, 01:50:24 PM »
Any advantage to the 1600 or 2000 FSB AMD 64's? Dont worry and just get the highest speed?

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AMD 64 1600 or 2000 FSB?
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2005, 02:05:53 PM »
Athlons 64 don't have a FSB they have Hypertransport (HT).
You can set the HT bus to either 800 or 1000 its bi-directional which is were the 1600/2000 comes from.

Usefull setting it to 2000 even if you don't have DDR500 RAM.
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AMD 64 1600 or 2000 FSB?
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2005, 11:00:17 PM »
Saw some 64's listed as either 1600 or 2000,  and had never seen them listed that way before which is why I asked. So, of you change the HT setting from 800 to 1000, does that change the mhz of the CPU or only the link to the system RAM?

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« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2005, 06:34:13 AM »
Link only
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AMD 64 1600 or 2000 FSB?
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2005, 11:46:24 AM »
Ahh, thanks Kev.