What is a good bus speed for a new computer?
Theoretically, the higher the front side bus (FSB) speed the better the computer performance. In personal computers, the Front Side Bus (FSB) is the data transfer bus that carries information between the CPU and the northbridge of the Motherboard. Front side buses serve as a connection between the CPU and the rest of the hardware via a so called chipset. This chipset is usually divided in a northbridge and a southbridge part, and is the connection points for all other buses in the system. Buses like the PCI, AGP, and memory buses all connect to the chipset in order for data to flow between the connected devices. These secondary system buses usually run at speeds derived from the front side bus clock, but are not necessarily synchronous to it. The frequency at which a processor (CPU) operates is determined by applying a clock multiplier to the front side bus (FSB) speed. For example, a processor running at 3200 MHz might be using a 400 MHz FSB. This means there is an internal clock mult
