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Re: Amiga bus frequency max?
« on: January 16, 2013, 10:16:06 PM »
Quote from: freqmax;722788
So clocking the CPU socket (bus) faster than 28 MHz is pointless except for any onboard memory (60 ns dram?).


With higher clock speeds RAM becomes a huge (tiny) bottleneck. That's why today's systems have large caches and synchronous memory with ever increasing clocks.
My Phenom uses more than 8 MB cache - a completely ridiculous amount if you think about it and nearly half the total amount of memory in my A3k.