Do I really have a 200 Mhz FSB?

I am going to upgrade to an Athlon processor, and I know they say it has a 200 Mhz Front-side Bus, but if my motherboard only supports PC133 RAM, will I still have a 200 Mhz FSB, or is it really going to be a 100 Mhz?

There is no such thing as a 200MHz FSB Athlon. It's only called that because AMD marketing has no scruples. It's actually 100MHz, used with DDR technology, which tansfers 2 bit of information per clock cycle. Using this marketing lie, 100MHz x DDR = 200DDR.
So 100MHz is 200MHz and vice versa, when discussing DDR. The processor bus of the Athlon series is DDR, but not necessarily the memory bus. In most cases the memory is still PC100 or PC133. Recently, DDR motherboards have become available, where PC1600 actaully runs at 100MHz x DDR = 200DDR. PC2100 is actually 266DDR. The inflated names (1600 and 2100) come from the number of bits per second, not the clock speed, simply because this industry likes big numbers.

Cast not thine pearls before the swine

suits my ego! keep itup.. go GeIXE7XR,, STABLE@1150 , then show me a stable photograghic? [-peep-] ya games..lmao...come on!!
All I knowis AMD is photogenic, &suits my my buzz! give me a jpg. on intel?Whatever..lol common?


~OMG IT nearly melted, lucky I had the extra fan *inside* ~

Yeah, that's true.

BTW, what about Mac processors? I've heard they have a FSB of 600. Is that true, and is that just double/quad/sextuple pumped or what?

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My Athlon can beat your Ferrari off the line.

What's a Mac, a truck?
Seriously, don't know much about them.
But we do have the technology for a true 400MHz SDR bus, and even 400mhz DDR memory.

Cast not thine pearls before the swine