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533 FSB questions

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11/1/02 at 1:15pm
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How useful is the 533FSB in these laptops? With laptops only using PC2100 how much more of an advantage does the FSB have if any? Since they offer 2.1GBps of memory bandwidth wouldn't the 533FSB basically be wasted? Am I missing something here?
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post #2 of 3
11/1/02 at 1:57pm
It didn't help the memory bandwidth at all. I don't know how much it helped in other areas. If anything, it enabled them to utilize a slightly higher 2.8GHZ clock speed and a new board using USB2.0. The 533 chips are what Intel is focusing on more now so the processor upgradeability is more there. The price didn't really change much at all when they did the switch.
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post #3 of 3
11/2/02 at 2:23am
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I think until faster memory becomes available to laptops this will never be fully utilized. At the same time there are other areas of the laptop that are true bottlenecks that need to somehow be addressed...harddrive speed for instance
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