Re: Questions regarding PC CPU

yihung (yihung@home.com) Sat, 2 Dec 2000 20:20:16 -0800 

From: "yihung" <yihung@home.com>
Subject: Re: Questions regarding PC CPU
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 20:20:16 -0800




Thanks for the answer.

I was doing some researching and actually found the answer to my own
questions.. hah

1) I mixed up some of the terms.. my question should be, what is a
'multiplier'. I know that
the number of the multiplier of the cpu multipliers the FSB and gives the
clock speed (6 X 100 = 600MHZ)
How does the multiplier work physically is what I wanted to know.

2)Found some satisfying answer on the net. When the system is idle, it goes
into a wait state, like you said. and the purpose is because different
applications (memory, I/O..etc) runs at a different
clock speed, the system has to go to a wait state so a slower app can catch
up with the rest.

3) Thanks.