How fast can you go with a 100 fsb

What are you asking?

It doesnt make much sence to me...

Which processor?
Intel or AMD?
Which motherboard?

Explain clearly what you mean, im kinda confused

it depends on what you do. i'm not too familiar with intel but it seems that the p3 800 is the last cpu with the 100mhz fsb (i could be wrong). in that case, going from 500mhz to 800mhz would definately be an improvement...especially if you go from a processor with off die cache to one with on die cache. like i said, it depends on what you do. if you do basic stuff (i.e. word, excel, internet, e-mail...) then it won't be noticeable because 500mhz can handle those tasks without a problem. if you are a hardcore gamer with a top of the line video card or you do stuff that will use as much processing power that you throw at it, like mpeg4/divx encoding, then the extra mhz will help, regardless of whether the fsb is 100mhz or 133mhz like some p3's.

I believe the top PIII 100mhz SECC is an 850 can somebody verify that? And at this time my interests are medium gaming, Janes F-15 and web browsing but would like to get into photo and video editing. The BE6-II v2 mobo has overclocking ability both in the fsb and multiplyer would changing the settings on the board be a better alternative than purchasing a faster cpu or just a cheaper way. If these questions seem to simple or just plain dumb I'm new to this game although I put together my system I just dont want to blow it up.

There isn't much point in overclocking a Duron beyond 1 ghz if that is what you mean (assuming you can). They seem to max out at that point. As for Tbirds there are performance gains all the way to 1.2 ghz (and further) even with a 100 mhz FSB. Of course, you will get more performance at 133 mhz.

I went to 1ghz PIII (earlier post) and it works ok.
To make the story short, I ruined my first mobo on
which I had a 550mhz PIII. I got a supermicro p6sba
as a replacement, and I noticed that it was capable
of running a 1ghz PIII at 100FSB. So I plunked down
the $276 and changed my 550 out with the new 1ghz.
It works really good and runs enough faster to make
it worth it. Littleberry

Yep your mistaken. Tom recently anounced that Intel will NO LONGER be producing the 900, which means that they did produce it for a while. Even tigerdirect.com sells that one. Or you can get the 1GHz/100FSB at

http://www.econopc.com/

http://www.accessmicro.com/indexprice.phtml

http://www.dallasmemory.com/

http://www.gogocity.com//dept.asp? [...] r+Hardware

http://www.techsumer.com/

And a few hundred other places.


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