I’m not sure exactly what it is called, but the amd phenom x6 1055t cpu supposedly doesn’t have a front side bus, but what it uses that is similar is hypertransport. Anyway, I would like to know if the bandwidth on the hypertransport is supposed to be the same as the bandwidth of the RAM in order to get optimal performance out of my computer. My guess is no, because on the amd website it lists the speed as 16GB/s. Can that number be converted to hertz? What I want to know most is what component of the cpu I should compare with the ram in terms of speed. My understanding is that the cpu is designed to support 1333 MHz at the most without overclocking it. Am I correct? I understand that I may be way uneducated or misinformed about all of this. If I had a cpu that uses a fsb, aren’t there cpus with much higher speed than the ram, and if so, why doesn’t that ruin the computer?
