SimonWM opened this issue on Aug 27, 2002 ยท 12 posts
mheldt posted Tue, 27 August 2002 at 1:19 PM
frontside bus is the speed that the computer accesses the memory. If the processor needs something not in the cache, then all the extra cycles within the CPU are worthless until the external clock beats again. Doubling the speed of the fsb has more weight than doubling the CPU speed.