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IEEE Approves 3.2 Gb/s IEEE 1394 High-speed Serial Bus Specification
July 29, 2008 – 3:50 PM
Piscataway (NJ) - IEEE 1394, better known under the brand names of Firewire and i.Link, will get a speed bump before the end of the year: The IEEE has approved the new IEEE 1394-2008 specification that provides support for a bandwidth of up to 3.2 Gb/s.
ATI takes fast bus to low-cost graphics
March 2, 2005 – 7:24 PM
ATI is using the speed of the new PCI Express bus to exploit system memory for a new range of fast, low-cost graphics cards.
New Catalyst 8.10 Drivers Bring Fan Speed Control
October 16, 2008 – 12:50 PM in AMD/ATI
Just a few hours after the new Nvidia 178.24 ForceWare release, AMD posted its new Catalyst 8.10 graphics drivers.
SiS signs Intel bus licence
February 16, 2005 – 10:48 PM in INTEL
SiS has licensed Intel's 1066 MHz frontside bus specification, a move that heralds the chip maker's support for Intel's latest Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processors.
OCZ sees more room in DDR1 speed, clocks memory at 772 MHz
February 24, 2005 – 7:45 PM
OCZ Technology today said it has built a dual-channel DDR1-772 memory with 3-4-4 timings.

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The Bus Speed Guide
January 1, 1998 – 12:00 PM in Overclocking
The work for this page has been the biggest project I have undertaken for this site to date. To be able to present you bullet proof facts I had to do three days of testing, measuring and tuning
The 75/83 MHz Bus Speed Project
July 3, 1997 – 1:00 PM
The first time that we all heard of 75 MHz bus speed was, when the Cyrix 6x86 P200+ was launched
Getting Up to Speed: XP-TMC Adapter Socket from Upgradeware Unlocks the Multiplier
July 3, 2003 – 1:02 PM
The clock speed of the Athlon XP is connected to the bus clock with a fixed multiplier, so that overclocking is only possible through an increase in the bus clock or other diverse tweaking methods on the processor itself. This task is made more comfortable with the XP-TMC from Upgradeware, a small adapter that lets you freely set the multiplier, and this is interesting for upgrades as well.
More Speed = More Performance? Fast DDR Memory from TwinMOS and Buffalo Technology Put to the Test
May 8, 2003 – 1:01 PM in Overclocking
More and more manufacturers are luring customers with fast RAM modules. DDR433 und DDR466 are the latest creations to breathe a touch more performance into today's computers. So what are the advantages of fast memory in practice?
Bus Master DMA Drivers - Just an Illusion
August 29, 1997 – 1:00 PM
Bus Master DMA Drivers from Intel and Others Are Falsely Inflating Benchmark Results