front side bus
front side bus
(hardware)Intel's Pentium 60 processor used a bus speed andprocessor speed of 60 MHz. All later processors have usedmultipliers to increase the internal clock speed whilemaintaining the same external clock speed, e.g. the Pentium 90 used a 1.5x multiplier. Modern Socket 370motherboards support multipliers from 4.5x to 8.0x, and FSBspeeds from 50 MHz to a proposed 83 MHz standard. Thesehigher speeds may cause problems with some PCI hardware.
Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the twomain ways of overclocking processors.
Toms Hardware - The Bus Speed Guide.
Toms Hardware - The Overclocking Guide.