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Scorpion27

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December 3rd, 2002 21:00

FSB is wrong

Hey, i just got my new computer about two weeks ago. Its been all good and fine up til yesterday. While i was dinking around with the BIOS i noticed that it sayed my FSB was running at 133 mhz. This angered me because i bought a system that should have a 533mhz system bus. Here are the specs:

P4 2.4 ghz with (supposedly) 533mhz system bus

512 ram

30 gig hard drive

DVD Rom

GeForce 4 4200

so forth and so on.

So what is the deal here. Did they just build my system wrong or is there some setting i can change to get the full bus speed. Is there some jumper setting needed to be delt with or what? I hope i can get this resovled without send the system back and getting a new one.

Thanks.

  • smerkor

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    Posted December 3rd, 2002 21:00

    4 x 133= 533 ... you didnt get screwed
  • volcano11

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    Posted December 3rd, 2002 22:00

    scorpion,

    To elaborate a bit on what smerkor has said,  all Pentium 4 chips are quad pumped, meaning they execute 4 instructions per clock cycle.  Thus a 133 mhz fsb quad pumped runs at 533.333 mhz.

    Steve 

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    Posted December 4th, 2002 02:00

    Oh, i really should have know that.Thanks a lot guys, i had myself worried for a second. Much graditude is given.