Hi there,I've been looking at computer specs for the past while now and i've noticed a lot of computers have this front sidebus setup (500mhz, 800mhz etc). Could someone explain to me what front sidebus actually is ?Thanks :-)

Basically (very) Its the speed at which the CPU "talks" to the memoryThe higher the FSB the better.I'm sure there are many in here that could give you a far more detailed explanation, but I think this gets the point across.

The way I understand the Front Side Bus (FSB), it is the speed at which the Processor (CPU) sends and receives data to the rest of the system. (hard drive, video and sound cards and especially the memory)There have been a lot of ways people have described the flow of this data but one of the best has been to think of it as a multi lane highway. You can move a lot more traffic down a 4 or 6 lane road than you can a 2 lane one. The 2 lane road would be the 400 MHz FSB, the 533 MHz would be a 4 lane, and an 800 MHz FSB would be a 6-8 lane wide road.Also over the years, we have seen the CPU, video card, memory (RAM) and hard drives increase in speed. Now we have a bunch of hi performance races cars trying to drive down a residential street which is full of speed bumps. Until we can get to the race track, we will not be able to run them at their potential top speeds.Hopefully this will help you understand what some of those FSB numbers are really saying.Terry