Confused on speed

[tekbro]

(Not read: "Confused. On speed.")
In any case, I need some help on setting up my upgrade. I've tried the usual spots for help, but can't quite put it all together yet. Here are my specs:
Mobo:Matsonic MS8188E fATX, Via KM400A, FSB=133MHz
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2000+, (1667 MHz). Sys FSB=266MHz
RAM: Apacer DDR PC2100 DIMM

First, I'm unclear on the relationship between The RAM, mobo, and CPU speeds. The mobo manual has a jumper (J3) setting of 133, 166, 100, or 200 MHz to select CPU Clock freq. BUT, my CPU specs only give a system bus speed of 266 MHz! I guess I'm not sure which is the right one. I don't want to overclock yet. I just want to get it running at the coolest possible temp and the easiest conditions.

-Tekbro

 

[bum_jcrules]

There are different buses on a motherboard and they can run at differing frequencies.

That jumper controls the CPU frequency. See page 13 of your user's manual.

<A HREF="http://206.135.80.155/download/manual/ms8188e_13a.zip" target="_new">Or you can download it here.</A>

The FSB uses two pipelines at 133MHz. (2 x 133 = 266) That is where they are getting the 266 from.

As for the memory bus, it will run at is 333MHz so that motherboard can accept DDR333 (PC2700) memory modules. The base clock is 166MHz times 2 (DDR = Double Data Rate) which equals 333.


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