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Uncommon card · Science
Front-side bus, an Uncommon card
The front-side bus is a computer communication interface that was often used in Intel-chip-based computers during the 1990s and 2000s.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 35
- Power
- 99
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 17,000
Power 99 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Front-side bus quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Front-side bus card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The EV6 bus served the same function for ______ AMD CPUs.
Answer
competing. The EV6 bus served the same function for competing AMD CPUs. From the Front-side bus article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Front-side bus. Front-side bus 64 · Angela Aki 61 · Ignacy Łukasiewicz 58 · Glyceraldehyde 55 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The EV6 bus served the same function for competing AMD CPUs.
- Both typically carry data between the central processing unit and a memory controller hub, known as the northbridge.
- Depending on the implementation, some computers may also have a back-side bus that connects the CPU to the cache.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Front-side bus article was read about 17,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 35: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Front-side bus
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Front-side bus in the power ranking, all domains together.
- American tree sparrowUncommon · Nature · ATK 54 DEF 45
- Angela AkiUncommon · Arts · ATK 61 DEF 38
- Daniele da VolterraUncommon · Arts · ATK 58 DEF 41
- Humberto MaturanaUncommon · Science · ATK 65 DEF 34
- Jan-Michael GambillUncommon · Society · ATK 66 DEF 33
- Luciana AymarUncommon · Society · ATK 63 DEF 36
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Science cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Front-side bus (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : CountingPine at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
