hi isaac, what tom is talking about is the speed at which info is transferred from pci cards such as nics, sound cards etc. i.e. the pci bus. despite the super fast performance of your cpu, memory etc, anything that relies on something connected via the pci bus cannot transfer faster than 33mhz (exceptions are if you have overclocked your mobo and if you have a rarer 66mhz pci slot), this 33mhz speed is part of the pci standard. this limitation was part of the motivation for the introduction of the agp slot to allow for faster (fatter) transfers between the graphics card and the cpu and memory. transfers involving isa connected stuff are even slower - @ 8mhz, this is why add-on conntroller cards for things like ata100 confuse me, any transfer that cannot be made by avoiding the pci slot/mobo interface must by definition be no faster than 33mhz, of course disk to disk would be different but nevertheless i don't see the advantage, anyone care to enlighten me? bascule On Wednesday 29 August 2001 2:44 am, you wrote: > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > Yes, with 1.4 Tbirds selling for $120, and equaling the perfomance > > of 2 gig Pentium 4's just out. Seems like the best deal, no?. Maybe > > not. Processor mhz aren't everything. Most all peripheals, including > > the harddrives still run on the 33.3mhz PCI bus. Despite all the > > hoopla 'bout D(ouble) D(ata) R(ate) this and DDR that, including AGP , > > and Win-RAID, and <whatever> the current advertised fad is ... > > everything still runs thru the good ol' slow 33.3mhz PCI bus. > > Tom, > > I sort of feel like I know basic hardware stuff, I've built a few of my > own comps from scratch and thought I knew the lingo and basic concepts, > but when you talk about everything having a 33.3mhz PCI bus what does > that mean? Is that the same thing as the 100/133/200/400 mhz bus people > talk about on processors/boards? I have a PIII 866 with a 133 bus. Any > enlightenment you can dish out is much appreciated. > > Gratefully, > Isaac
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