Info

[TRshady]

a friend says that if the motheboard bus speed isnt as high as the processor needs then the processor will perform at a low speed ... is this true?

[Virtualbody1234]

Yes. For example, you can run an Athlon XP 2500+ on a board that has a maximum FSB speed of 266MHz even if the chip is designed to run at 333MHz FSB.

[tesco]

ya to add to what virtualbody1234 said, the cpu would then run at the speed of a athlon xp 1700+ becuase of the lower FSB.

source...Take the original multiplier and then just look at it over in the 266mhz FSB section instead of the 333 ones.

[TRshady]

Thanks for the reply people, knew so myself .. just had a friend round who didnt believe that I have a decent processor even though its running at a slowler speed due to my motherboard. Asking in the way I did just made things more simple .. thanks again.