Chipset

Is the northbridge/southbridge chipset only used with Intel mobo's
Rudy

No. Intel is not the only one.

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DaveW



"Rudy Kazuti" wrote in message
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Is the northbridge/southbridge chipset only used with Intel mobo's
Rudy

DaveW wrote:

No. Intel is not the only one.


Then why do AMD boards have both North & South bridge chipsets?

"Dee" wrote in message
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DaveW wrote:

No. Intel is not the only one.


Then why do AMD boards have both North & South bridge chipsets?

???

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Derek

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:08:13 -0500, Dee
wrote:

DaveW wrote:

No. Intel is not the only one.


Then why do AMD boards have both North & South bridge chipsets?

Because it's less expensive to fab two chips when all the
features would otherwise take up one very large chip that'd
have to be designed from scratch instead of an evolution of
existing designs? Just getting rid of the memory controller
doesn't remove the other needs of the NB/SB pair.

I am confused. I just read where the northbridge chip connects the CPU to
memory, PCI and AGP. Are these chips needed no matter what chipset is on the
board ex. Via, Nvidia or intel chipsets?

Rudy Kazuti wrote:
I am confused. I just read where the northbridge chip connects the
CPU to memory, PCI and AGP. Are these chips needed no matter what
chipset is on the board ex. Via, Nvidia or intel chipsets?


Half way down this page is a block diagram of the Intel 925x chipset. Most
all chipsets which have been made perform the same or nearly the same
functions. It seems to me SiS had a chip which integrated the NB and SB, a
few years ago.

http://intel.com/design/chipsets/925x/index.htm

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"S.Heenan" wrote in message
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Rudy Kazuti wrote:
I am confused. I just read where the northbridge chip connects the
CPU to memory, PCI and AGP. Are these chips needed no matter what
chipset is on the board ex. Via, Nvidia or intel chipsets?


Half way down this page is a block diagram of the Intel 925x chipset. Most
all chipsets which have been made perform the same or nearly the same
functions. It seems to me SiS had a chip which integrated the NB and SB, a
few years ago.

http://intel.com/design/chipsets/925x/index.htm


The machine I'm typing this on has a single chip - an Nvidia Nforce 3.

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Derek

Derek Baker wrote:
"S.Heenan" wrote in message
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Rudy Kazuti wrote:
I am confused. I just read where the northbridge chip connects the
CPU to memory, PCI and AGP. Are these chips needed no matter what
chipset is on the board ex. Via, Nvidia or intel chipsets?


Half way down this page is a block diagram of the Intel 925x
chipset. Most all chipsets which have been made perform the same or
nearly the same functions. It seems to me SiS had a chip which
integrated the NB and SB, a few years ago.

http://intel.com/design/chipsets/925x/index.htm


The machine I'm typing this on has a single chip - an Nvidia Nforce 3.

True. I didn't think to mention the Nforce3/4. The gist was to point out the
various functions of the chipset to Rudy K.

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