Is my motherboard's bus speed hindering my PC's performance?

[ravl13]

Hello,

I have an Asus A78M-A FM2+ motherboard:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132080&cm_re=a78m_motherboard_asus%5c-_-13-132-080-_-Product

I downloaded a program called CPU-Z to test out my motherboard's bus speed, since a friend suggested to me to make sure my bus speed is decent otherwise the computer's performance won't be good. The results said that I have a Bus Speed of 100 mHZ (bottom left corner of my screenshot):

I have a 3.9 GHz Quad-Core AMD CPU and 32 GB of RAM in my machine. My question, is essentially "Is my bus speed of 100 mHZ a good or bad speed, for my PC's performance?"

I'm not sure if 100 mHZ is a "good" bus speed, and if it's a choke point that is "wasting" my fairly powerful processor and large amount of RAM.

Thanks in advance for any insight!

 

[Calculagator]

I have no idea what your friend meant. Your 100 Hz bus is the standard. Overclocking via changing the bus speed is not especially common with modern unlocked CPUs. The bus speed is not a choke point. You could overclock it, but I'm not sure what you would gain over increasing the multipliers. Every component in the system uses the bus speed as its baseline. If you increase it by much it will quickly cause system instability.

 

[Proxify]

Like calculagator (love the name) said above, 100 Hz is standard for bus speed. What sort of performance hindrances are you seeing?

 

[nukemaster]

100 is normal.

On older cpus the bus speed was more important, but now days things a re bit different.

Your clock is bus x multiplier so 100 x 39 is 3.9ghz and that is normal. The cpu can also boost to upto 4.2ghz when less cores are loaded.

On older cpus the bus speed was also the link to the rest of the system(so faster bus was desired) via the chipset, but your cpu has hypertransport as a link to the rest of the system and that is plenty fast. Intel has its own high speed link called QPI.

Both Intel and AMD integrate the memory controller into the cpu to further improve performance.