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> By overclocking a 366MHz CPU to 466MHz, you "only" got 78MHz of memory bandwidth.

I think the PCI bus probably also typically ran at some fraction of the front-side bus. The common FSB frequencies around those times were 66 or 100 MHz which gave a standard ~33 MHz PCI bus frequency with a multiplier of 1/2 or 1/3. FSB frequencies that weren't close to a multiple of 33 MHz might have caused trouble with some PCI cards. Might have depended on how the motherboard or chipset handled the bus frequencies, too.

Of course the PCI bus should probably always run at 33 MHz but I think I saw it being modified with the FSB speed at least on some motherboards.



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