
Exam Tip
Remember that DRAM is fast, cheap, and must be refreshed; SRAM
is much faster, very expensive, and requires no refreshing.
The frontside bus connects the CPU to RAM or to the Northbridge chip of the
chipset. The frontside bus usually runs at 2× or 4× the speed of the system crys
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tal, so it is referred to as a double-pumped or quad-pumped frontside bus.Every
CPU since the Intel Pentium has a 64-bit frontside bus. Figure 5.2 shows the
relationship of the CPU, cache, backside bus, and frontside bus.
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FIGURE 5.2 The CPU in the center
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