Q: Whats System Bus and Cache Memory on a computer? Can someone explain the stuff below? System Bus 1600MHz Cache Memory 512KB + 512KB at die Level 2
A: The system bus is like a communication line that the processor use to talk to the rest of the system. Faster is not always better, it depends on the situation. Cache memory on processors is just like other memory only a lot faster. When the processor needs recent information it will look in cache first before going to system memory and finally to the harddrive. Obviously more cache memory will store more information and thus keep the processor from going to system memory or disk for data to often.