The front-side bus had the advantage of high flexibility and low cost when it was first designed.
The front-side bus was criticized by AMD as being an old and slow technology that limits system performance.
Furthermore, the speed of the front-side bus was increased from 667 MHz to 800 MHz.
He probably doesn't have a really high-speed front-side bus and not high-speed memory, or not much memory.
"FSB" in the specification stands for front-side bus.
"Think of front-side bus as a data freeway between the computer's brain and the memory," Mr. Bond explained.
What would have formerly been a system bus is now often known as a front-side bus.
This arrangement caused the communication channel known as the front-side bus (FSB) to be heavily used.
The primary use for HyperTransport is to replace the front-side bus, which is currently different for every type of machine.
Like the 3000-series, these models only support single-CPU operation and operate on a 1066 MHz front-side bus.