What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1

Posted Oct 10, 2007 22:22 UTC (Wed) by wookey (guest, #5501)
In reply to: What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1 by DonDiego
Parent article: What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1

You have missed the bit that the '1.066Ghz' bus is 'quad-pumped' so isn't really 1GHz at all: it is a quarter of that. Hence about 11:1 rather than about 3:1 ration between clock speeds. I just learned this from the above article (I had been taken in by marketers before and assumed that FSB speeds were real :-)