How Is A Processors Front Side Bus Speed Measured?
Older technology defined the front side bus speed in Megahertz. A typical Pentium II processor was designed to run at a 100 MHz bus speed while a Pentium III processor ran at 133 MHz, a shade faster than the Pentium II. A budget style Pentium II compatible processor labelled the Celeron, ran at a 66 Mhz front side bus speed. This Celeron chip was a lower style Pentium processor because it contained a smaller amount of cache memory and was best suited for low end workstations. It is also important to note, that in the processor world, every bit of speed helps, so the difference of 66 MHz equipped in a Celeron processor highly impacts the overall performance of a system and makes it more of a bottlneck for multimedia intensive applications and games. The design of the Celeron slowly changed to allow it to run at a 100 MHz bus speed, but this did not happen until the Celeron was categorized into the Pentium III family of processors. Eventually design specifications permitted the Celeron t
