Not that I don't disagree that the project is ill advised; but what current
home level PC has a 1Ghz bus?

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> > Something to think about:  At 1GHz light travels just under 30cm, often
> > less than the depth of your case, in one clock cycle.
>
> And that's the propagation speed in vacuum (30cm or about 1 foot per nS).
> Figure about half that for an electric signal on a transmission line, like
a
> PC board bus trace.  So 6 inches of PC board trace is one clock cycle at
> 1GHz.  Still want to build this yourself?

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