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system bus
Last modified: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 

The bus that connects the CPU to main memory on the motherboard. I/O buses, which connect the CPU with the systems other components, branch off of the system bus.

The system bus is also called the frontside bus, memory bus, local bus, or host bus.

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