Taking as an example the QX9650 CPU, which has effective FSB of 1333MT/s which I assume to be 333MHz real FSB since its quad pumped, means that matched RAM would be DDR2-667 (bus clock of 333MHz, giving DRAM:FSB of 1:1) or DDR3-1333 (bus clock of 667MHzgiving DRAM:FSB of 2:1)
Now looking at the article on wiki for the QX9650 and memory matching,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_2#Synchronous_memory_modules
the one thing I cannot understand is why the DDR3-1333 would have a bandwidth of 10.67 GB/s in single channel mode, because I would assume, since the CPU FSB is 333MHz, the DDR3 memory is accessed 333 times a second, and in single channel 64-bit transfer mode would give 333x2x8=5.3GB/s (x2 because data transferred on rising and falling edges of clock pulse)
my basic understanding must be wrong so I'd like to know what really happens
Now looking at the article on wiki for the QX9650 and memory matching,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_2#Synchronous_memory_modules
the one thing I cannot understand is why the DDR3-1333 would have a bandwidth of 10.67 GB/s in single channel mode, because I would assume, since the CPU FSB is 333MHz, the DDR3 memory is accessed 333 times a second, and in single channel 64-bit transfer mode would give 333x2x8=5.3GB/s (x2 because data transferred on rising and falling edges of clock pulse)
my basic understanding must be wrong so I'd like to know what really happens