What's faster?

Maybe this is more obvious to you than me.

What would be faster, a Slot 1 133mhz bus PIII 933 or a Slot 1 100mhz bus PIII 1ghz? The memory speeds would not be affected, only the cpu bus.

Can anyone provide a good link or a good explanation? I'm thinking there will be times when the 933 would actually be faster then the 1ghz.

[JayMan]

I'm thinking the 133Mhz fsb will make the 933 faster in many cases...

Ya could always do what i do... 133mhz FSB 933Mhz P3 running at 150Mhz FSB, making a 1050Mhz P3... The best of both worlds! hehe... Altho mines a socket 370, so i dunno how well the slot1's overclock...

JayMan

[MrPurple]

I was always under the impression that the FSB directly affects the CPU speeds.
A 133 FSB means you can run 133 MHz ram in the system, boosting overall performance.
plus the numbers are not that far off. Considering they use the same core, the 1gig is only 67 MHz faster, that is not alot, and will only be seen, maybe, in real hardcore number crunching apps.

I believe that the 133 FSB would in gerenal boost the performance of the system, and it can OC beter as JayMan showed.

The memory is Rambus. The board is not overclocking friendly.

I think hardcore CPU tasks would benefit from the faster core, while multimedia applications may be faster with the faster bus.

Overall, would they even out?

The applications most likely to be used are lan file storage on SCSI and some gaming. Probably hosting online games, too. Games like UT, JKII, QIIIA, etc. And a lot of LAME encoding, as this will be my music storage center.

So, based on this, I guess the answer would be whatever's cheaper?

[MrPurple]

I forgot about Rambus, and that the old P3 used it, sry bout that.
Hmm, I would go with whatever is cheaper i guess.
I was looking at the intel website, and it states that both the 1gig and the 933 use a 100 system bus, so I guess the 1gig would be better since you are not getting anything out that 133 buss in the end.

Actually, the same rules don't apply to the SECC2 packaging. AFAIK, the 933 in the slot 1 package is only available as a 133mhz fsb part, while the PIII 1ghz is available in 100mhz and 133mhz fsb speeds. The only problem is that the slot 1 133 fsb P3 1ghz has become extremely scarce.

I'm also pretty sure there was a PIII 1.13 in the slot 1 package, but there are none of them available.

The motherboard is too finicky to accept a slocket adapter, so a Tualatin processor is not a viable option. It won't even accept a Coppermine processor in a slocket. It will accept either 133 or 100 mhz fsb processor.