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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Grits on January 17, 2005, 01:50:24 PM

Title: AMD 64 1600 or 2000 FSB?
Post by: Grits 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?

Title: AMD 64 1600 or 2000 FSB?
Post by: Kev367th 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.

Title: AMD 64 1600 or 2000 FSB?
Post by: Grits 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?

Title: AMD 64 1600 or 2000 FSB?
Post by: Kev367th on January 18, 2005, 06:34:13 AM

Link only

Title: AMD 64 1600 or 2000 FSB?
Post by: Grits on January 18, 2005, 11:46:24 AM

Ahh, thanks Kev.