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The Front-Side Bus lies between the CPU and the Northbridge chipset.
The Northbridge chipset controls the highspeed devices on the motherboard such as PCI components, Memory, and AGP Video, however the Northbridge needs a direct communication link to the CPU in order to when to send data to control these devices. That's where the FSB comes into play and provides that direct link. One wishing to overclock their system must take into the speed of the Northbridge chipset as it plays an important part in determining Overclocking speeds.
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What are the names for a computer system bus?
The bus that connects the CPU to main memory on the motherboard. I/O buses, which connect the CPU with the systems other components, branch off of the system bus."The system bus is called the frontside bus, memory bus, local bus, or host bus."See the Related Links below.
What is the width of the frontside bus of an Intel Itanium CPU?
44 bits
What was the width in bits of the original 8088 procerssor frontside bus?
8 bits
How do you configure a NIC to make a BUS work?
if by BUS you mean Frontside Bus, you dont need to configure anything, it is automatically configured when the computer is made
What are two other names for the system bus?
System bus, memory bus, front side bus (FSB), host bus, local bus, or external bus.
What is the function of front side bus?
The front side bus formerly connected the Northbridge Controller to the CPU (a way of communication) it still has the same communication, but it is not called FSB, it is called a HyperTransport Bus.
What is a frontside flip on a skateboard?
A frontside flip is where you do a frontside 180 and do a kickflip at the same time.
When was Frontside Rock'n'Roll created?
Frontside Rock'n'Roll was created in 2002.
When was Frontside - band - created?
Frontside - band - was created in 1993.
Components that must use the same front side bus speed?
motherboard and cpu
When was Frontside Ollie created?
Frontside Ollie was created on 2012-01-16.
Can you use a larger CPU than is required by the motherboard without conflict?
You can but your CPU will probably not go as fast as it should. The motherboard has a system crystal that has a clock. The speed of the clock is called the frontside bus speed. A CPU uses a multiplier to make the CPU go faster. For instance if the frontside bus is 100MHz and the CPU has a multipier of 5, then the CPU will operate at 500MHz. So, if you use a CPU that is larger than what the motherboard requires the front side bus, which is dictated by the type of motherboard may be slower that what your CPU is supposed to see so it will run slower. Hope this helps, if you have any questoins leave it on my message board.
