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FSB

The Front Side Bus determines how fast (clock rate) the CPU can deliver data externally (external clock rate).

The system memory also has to operate at this clock rate. The clock rates used today are 66, 100 and 133 MHz.

The term was coined by Intel, but does not actually designate a bus.

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