You end up with the advertised/effective CPU speed, such as 2.8GHz.
Processor frequency
processor frequency
processor frequency
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System bus frequency and multiplier
Front Bus and 1600
The frequency of a system bus is measured in Hz. Modern computer system buses operate at hundreds of MHz or at GHz.
A system bus frequency is 1600 MHz. A CPU frequency is 166 MHz to almost 4GHz.
There is no "common" frequency. As new technology develops, the speed of the front side bus and newer system buses continuously increases.
Frequency is measured in Hertz, or cycles per second.
it depends on the CPU.. but the frequency is measured in herts
CPU speed is calculated off of the Front Side Bus (FSB) speed and the CPU Multiplier. Don't confuse HyperTransport (HT) or Quad Data Rate (QDR, aka Quad Pumping) with FSB. HyperTransport and QDR have "replaced" FSB, but they too rely on the FSB. FSB was formerly used as a transport medium for data between the processor, memory and northbridge chipset and is now used more just as a reference clock frequency. FSB * Multiplier = CPU Speed For example, my Sempron 3400+ runs at 2.0 GHz with an 800MHz HyperTransport bus. It runs on a 200 MHz FSB bus and has a multiplier of 10. The HyperTransport multiplier is 4. 200 MHz FSB * 10x Multiplier = 2,000 MHz CPU 200 MHz FSB * 8x HT Multiplier = 800 MHz HyperTransport bus
CPU operates from 166 MHz to more than 3 GHz system can operate from 133 MHz to 400 MHz. CPU is faster than the system bus