Sneak Peek at 800MHz FSB Performance

In about a month, Intel will be introducing it’s new chipsets, 865 and 875. With the new chipsets Intel will be debuting the 800MHz FSB and then 800MHz processors. Improving overall system performance is a game of removing bottlenecks and making paths that aren’t already bottlenecked as fast as possible. When dealing with increasing the frequency of a FSB, there are two major factors that influence whether or not the faster FSB will actually improve performance. After reading this, I believe that Intel has seen the merits in what AMD has been saying about optimizing chip design for performance/speed enhancements will work better than increasing the chip core speed. In fact they decided to optimize there design and increase core speed. AnandTech takes a look at the approach Intel is taking. Read all about it, here.