THG NForce2 Review

That's what I don't get. Back in the socket 7 days, you could have a 200Mhz CPU at 66x3 or 100x2 and the CPU didn't care. Why does the AMD XP care about the FSB Freq?

A 200 MHz CPU is not a 200 MHz fsb.

<font color=red>The solution may be obvious, but I can't see it for the smoke coming off my processor.</font color=red>

Well, the K6-2 (along with other CPU's of the time) could be ran at a lower bus speed, but they ramped it up higher on the different boards, ranging form 66Mhz, 75Mhz, 83Mhz, and eventually 100Mhz stuck for a while. The clock generators though of the time, only were able to do 1 through 5 I believe, with 2 defaulting to 6 in some cases. The AXP is much more sensitive to FSB increases/decreases, which also will greatly affect the heat output and energy requirements

Instead of Rdram, why not just merge 4 Sdram channels...