The PCI Bus is typically measured in Megabytes per second (MBps). The USB and FireWire Bus is...

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The PCI Bus is typically measured in Megabytes per second (MBps).

The USB and FireWire Bus is typically measured in Megabits per second (Mbps) and should not be confused with MBps.

FireWire 800 is listed at a Maximum Speed of 100 MBps, which translates to 800Mbps. (There are 8 bits in a 1 byte).

1ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) bus slots for plugging in older 8 and 16-bit adapter cards.

2PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus slots for plugging in newer 32-bit adapter cards.

3Hard drive controller connectors.

4Power connector.

5Parallel port connector.

6Floppy disk controller connector.

7SIMM (Single In-line Memory Module) sockets for adding memory.

8Lithium backup battery for the CMOS.

9Configuration jumper block for changing the ISA bus clock, clearing a CMOS password, resetting the CMOS to the default settings, etc.

10Front panel connectors for the internal speaker, keyboard and hard drive lights, +12v fan, etc.

11Pentium processor in a Socket 5 connector.

12256K cache (those systems with an external cache only).

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