First post, by Tecchie
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Since I can’t seem to reply to the original thread from 2017, I’m making a new one.
(Tells me “the license you chose for this post is not valid”) - whatever that means.
Anyways;
Something people forget about the 400 (200MHz) bus speeds. Literally EVERYTHING in the system communicates over the Front Side Bus. So overall system performance increases as a whole. Not just memory speed and CPU processing ability.
Easy way to test this is run a benchmark off memory and hard drives (preferably an SSD) off the SATA controller off an nForce2 equipped board and see the results between the 266 & 400 bus speeds. Easy enough to do with any 400 processor as they can all be downclocked
Sorry to revive an old thread. It when I went from my Palomino 1800+ which I already punched to 166MHz FSB (was a pain with this chip to get it there) to the Barton 3200+ at 200(400)bus, beyond the CPU clock speed, my system was significantly faster.