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Also known as the "FSB", connects the memory and all of the other devices on your motherboard to the CPU (processor). You can think of it like a highway that carries the data around "Motherboard City". The speed of the FSB is expressed as a frequency (it's clock speed) in MHz (MegaHertz). One MHz is one million cycles per second. The FSB also has a "width", expressed in bits, such as 16 or 32 bit etc.. The wider it is, the more data can be transferred in one clock cycle. So, for example, a motherboard featuring "266 FSB" means that it's FSB runs at 266MHz and is usually 32 Bits wide. Although with "true" 64 Bit processors becoming widely available, the bit width can be 64 bits wide.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agothe front side bus (or FSB) is the highway that data takes to get anywhere inside your computer. When data travels to or from the processor or the memory or any of the cards in your computer (network card, video, sound or other cards) it takes the FSB to get there. The FSB cannot be upgraded without replacing the motherboard, unlike the processor or memory.
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The CPU is connected to the system memory by the?
The Front Side Bus (FSB) connects the processor (CPU) in your computer to the system memory.
What bus Inside the processor housing data instructions addresses and control signals?
front side bus
What is the name for the bus that connects the L2 cache to the processor inside the Intel Pentium II processor housing?
Its called the backside bus or cache bus. There's also the ATC bus. Back Side Bus Front side bus or cache bus Back Side Bus
What is part of the motherboard and connects the processor to main memory?
Front side bus, which is part of the mother board
What is system bus?
System bus speed in microprocessors is the speed at which a processor sends/receives data from the motherboard's memory controller. It is also called the Front Side Bus (FSB) speed in the case of Intel CPUs.
What is the name for the bus that connects L2 caches to the processor inside the Pentium II processor housing?
Back side bus or cache bus
What is FSB or front side bus on a computer?
AnswerFSB or Front Side Bus is a bus (group of signals) which connects the computer processor to the North Bridge/memory controller. FSB speed decides the speed of memory acess.Also see,http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_side_bus- Neeraj Sharma
When evaluating CPU performance which feature do you need to consider?
Amount of cache memory, speed of processor, speed of the front side bus
What is the name for the bus that connects L2 cache to the processor inside the Pentium II processor housing?
back-side bus
What is front side bus speed?
The front side bus connects the CPU on the motherboard to the Northbridge. Front side bus speed is in preference to how much data can move across the bus simultaneously, and is measured in megahertz.
The portion of the internal bus that connects the processor to the internal memory cache?
Back-Side Bus
The portion of the internal bus that connects the processor to the memory cache is called?
Back-side bus(BSB)
