amd bus speed?

Question

i was looking at an amd am2 motherboard and the front side bus and it says it supports processors with a 1000mhz bus, but when i looked at the am2 processor the bus speed was 2000mhz. are they compatible? if yes, how?

Answer 1

Technically because AMD chips now have memory controllers built into the die, it does not have a FSB. The Front Side Bus is typically the bus connecting CPU to the Memory Controller. So if you want ,you can consider FSB as the speed of your AMD chips. AMD internal documents reiterates this.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_8796_8799,00.html

"† The AMD Opteron™ processor does not have a front side bus. The processor to memory controller interface is on the processor die. "

However if you're talking about the system bus, the HyperTransport is full duplex bus (meaning if the information travels at 1000 Mhz, it's effectively 2000 Mhz because information travels bidirectionally at the same time) You'll see both specification but they basically mean the same.

Answer 2

AM2 is a dual core 2x1000=2000

Answer 3

amd is old dude, intel just own amd big time, check out the brand new Intel Core 2 dueo is faster than AMD 2x price processor. has 2 to 4 mb catch bus speed.