Technical Terms - Hardware (A-Z) - FSB

What does FSB stand for?

• Front-System Bus

• Front-Side Bus

• Fast-Speed Bus

• Front-Signal Bus

What was the interface between a computer's CPU and its memory controller?

• Chipset

• FSB

• Southbridge

• Northbridge

Which component became obsolete when processor makers integrated the memory controller directly into the CPU?

• Northbridge

• Southbridge

• FSB

• Chipset

What did the northbridge communicate with in a computer system?

• System RAM and high-speed expansion slots

• PCI bus and storage devices

• USB controller and I/O components

• AGP and PCI Express

How was the speed of the front-side bus measured?

• In gigahertz

• In terahertz

• In megahertz

• In kilohertz

What was the result of the bus speed multiplied by a clock multiplier set in the system's BIOS?

• Chipset's speed

• RAM's speed

• FSB's speed

• CPU's speed

What made computers less efficient when using larger clock multipliers?

• CPU overheating

• System bus failure

• Memory overload

• Processor waiting for data transmission

Which CPU designers created new processors that integrated the memory controller directly into the CPU?

• AMD only

• Nvidia

• Both Intel and AMD

• Intel only

What did the new processors bypass the need for?

• Front-Side Bus

• Southbridge

• Chipset

• Northbridge

What was the main function of the front-side bus in a computer system?

• Connect CPU to memory controller

• Connect CPU to I/O components

• Connect CPU to USB controller

• Connect CPU to storage devices