In theory, a faster bus should improve the processor's performance.

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And was immediately reminded that, after all, the computing experience is influenced by a wide range of technical factors, such as serial bus and memory configuration, rather than processor speed alone.

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The system bus is a conduit that funnels data between the processor and other parts of a PC.

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The bus is a data conduit that carries information between the processor and other parts of the PC.

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The Pentium III is essentially a Pentium II processor, with the same 512KB off-chip secondary cache and 100-MHz system bus.

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There's an Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Pentium III processor and a hard drive, and the game controllers connect to the unit via the Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology that's typical of most PCs.

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