communicates with its
RAM and
chipset; one half of the
the same chip as the processor [example?].
In
PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed.
processor speed of 60
MHz. All later processors have used
multipliers to increase the internal
clock speed while
maintaining the same external clock speed, e.g. the
Pentium90 used a 1.5x multiplier. Modern
Socket 370speeds from 50 MHz to a proposed 83 MHz standard. These
higher speeds may cause problems with some PCI hardware.
Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two
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