AMD Athlon System Bus

[prsobel]

AMD's web site says, "At present, AMD Athlon processors are available with 266MHz and 200MHz system buses."

Please advise how one might be able to identify a 266Mhz from a 200Mhz system bus.

 

[crypto]

straight from the AMD website

AMD Athlon? processor with a 266MHz front-side bus supporting PC2100 DDR memory technology is available at 1.2, 1.13, and 1GHz.
AMD Athlon? processor with 200MHz front-side bus supporting PC1600 DDR memory technology is available at 1.2GHz(1200MHz), 1100, 1000, 950, 900, and 850MHz

but you already looked there.. i would guess that when you buy one it would say somewhere before you make the purchase, like in the description what FSB the proc is designed for.. i don't see a section on AMDs website with spec info like Intel provides (tsk tsk tsk)

 

[Zephyr]

to see if it's 200 or 266 MHz FSB part, you look at the part number ... it should read A1200AMS3C if it's a 266MHz part or A1200AMS3B if it's a 200MHz part(here using the 1200MHz Tbird as an example)