what is the average motherboard speed of today? from Pentium3 upwards?

Question

ok, We know that RAM usually is 333MHz or 450, 667 or even 800MHz, and CPU speeds are usually 1.8GHz or 3.0GHz.

but what is the usual motherboard main speed, the FSB speed range?

Also, is the FSB the North Bridge in the Accelerated Hub Architecture?

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Answer 1

Well keep in mind the FSB speed is dictated by the processor you buy, not the motherboard. The motherboard only has to support the FSB speed of the processor you buy. If you go all the way back to Pentium 3 land you can see front side bus speeds as low as 100Mhz, but for anything new the lowest you will se is 800Mhz, with Core 2 Duos now hitting 1066Mhz and the newest ones at 1333Mhz. As for what the FSB is, the speed is dictated entirely by the processor, so I would say it is part of the processor, but it is essentially the bus that connects the processor to the northbridge, not the northbridge itself.

If you go over to the world of AMD, they no longer connect to the northbridge via the front side bus, at least in the traditional sense of the word. They use the HyperTransport, which right now is at a double pumped speed of 2000Mhz. If you consider a front side bus to be anything that connects the processor to the northbridge, then a HyperTransport is a FSB, but if you look at the way in which the FSB has traditionally operated, the HyperTransport is something entirely different.

Answer 2

Motherboard Speeds

Answer 3

Intel range for front side bus went from 100 to 133mhz in the pentium 3 era and in the Pentium 4 era its 400mhz, 533mhz, 800mhz, 1066mhz...
As of now its Core 2 Duo and the frontside bus are 1066mhz and 1333mhz for mainstream chips and higher end models and 533 and 800mhz for lower end models

and yes the Front Side Bus is the northbridge connect to the south bridge and connected to everything else in the Hub architecture for intel chipsets

Amd during the pentium 3 days had front side bus of 95mhz and 100mhz and during pentium 4 Amd had 100mhz, 133mhz, 166mhz and 200mhz with the Athlon chip

then Amd went over to Athlon 64 and got rid of the hub architecture all together and went over to hypertransport and intergrating the memory controller into the processor which ranges from 800mhz, 1000mhz and 2000mhz

Also Ram speed also comes in DDR3 which has speeds of 1066mhz and 1333mhz

Answer 4

too many makes of boards by too many manufactures and some many become obsolete sooner than you can flick your finger,,

it all depends on the type of system and what the processor variances are,,

older socket 478s usually are 333-800 max,,

some of the amd 2 and newer can run fsb's in excess of 1500

Answer 5

depending on the board from 533 - 1000 .. and on amd the memory controller was moved onto the processor die so there really isnt a northbridge anymore ..