AMD's Front Side Bus vs. Intel's?

[xpally]

I'm looking at laptops and noticed that AMD's Front Side Bus is typically 1600 MHz, whereas Intel's is 667 to 800 MHz. I've looked at other answers and found an explanation that AMD's FSB is built-in to the CPU or something like that. Furthermore, someone said that AMD's FSB cycle speed is moot because the DDR2 RAM can't go that fast.My question is: Does Intel's lower FSB (667 MHz) gives a lower performance?Please don't respond saying: "Pick Intel, they perfom better", or "Pick AMD it's cheaper". I'm looking for a little explanation as to how system performance is affected by the two FSB's of both chips.If you want more info, assume the AMD is a Turion(TM) 64 X2 TL-60: 2.0GHz, FSB 1600 MHz; and the Intel is a Core 2 Duo T5750: 2.0 GHz, FSB 667 MHz.

[Krahis]

Their performance it about the same right now, but the FSB on the AMD is faster. So if you're doing a lot of computing with the same small set of data, AMD is your best bet. Actually, AMD is your best bet for anything other than a laptop, simply because their chips take up a lot more power than intel's. Hope this helps!

[dblane79]

Depending on your motherboard it might cap the FSB at 800Mhz.AMD's typically consume more power than an intel chip which means intel can be ran longer and perform better because its not under constant heat stress. Intel and AMD's FSB are built on the CPU, it has too, theres no other option. Taking into consideration the performance of both chips AMD is said to be faster on this one due to pure specifications. But thier basically identical in my books.

[MikeyB]

In personal computers, the Front Side Bus (FSB) is the data transfer bus that carries information between the CPU and the northbridge of the Motherboard. That means the speed of FSB decides how fast the processor will communcate with other devices including memory. Two similar processors working on different FSB speeds may have different performance. So the actual performance is a factor of both - processor performance and FSB speed. Intel processor is better because it has more on chip-cache and that is a critical component for processor performance, but FSB is better in the other case. If I am to make a choce, i will try to buy the intel processor and buy the motherboard with a chipset that supports higher FSB.I hope It helps.