Hey all,
I was just try to figure out the FSB in my mind and got stuck because of this wiki article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_side_bus
It says,
The bandwidth or maximum theoretical throughput of the front side bus is determined by the product of the width of its data path, its clock frequency (cycles per second) and the number of data transfers it performs per clock cycle. For example, a 32-bit (4-byte) wide FSB operating at a frequency of 100 MHz that performs 4 transfers per cycle has a bandwidth of 1600 megabytes per second (MB/s).
ok, this all makes sense to me except one thing! 4 transfers of 4 bytes = 16bytes, 16 bytes x 100mhz = 1600bytes!!! They say it equals 1600Megabytes though!! So shouldn't it be bytes instead of megabytes?
Can someone help me,
Thanks!
I was just try to figure out the FSB in my mind and got stuck because of this wiki article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_side_bus
It says,
The bandwidth or maximum theoretical throughput of the front side bus is determined by the product of the width of its data path, its clock frequency (cycles per second) and the number of data transfers it performs per clock cycle. For example, a 32-bit (4-byte) wide FSB operating at a frequency of 100 MHz that performs 4 transfers per cycle has a bandwidth of 1600 megabytes per second (MB/s).
ok, this all makes sense to me except one thing! 4 transfers of 4 bytes = 16bytes, 16 bytes x 100mhz = 1600bytes!!! They say it equals 1600Megabytes though!! So shouldn't it be bytes instead of megabytes?
Can someone help me,
Thanks!
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