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The heart and soul of the motherboard is: motherboard chipset. Motherboard chipset is the core component of the motherboard, which can be compared to the bridge between CPU and peripheral equipment; for the motherboard, chipset almost determines the function of this motherboard, which in turn affects the performance of the entire computer system, chipset is the soul of the motherboard.

Operating environment: Windows 7, Dell G3 PC.

The heart and soul of the motherboard is: motherboard chipset.

Motherboard chipset (Chipset) is the core component of the motherboard, which can be compared to the bridge between CPU and peripheral devices. In the computer industry, the manufacturer of the design chipset is called Core Logic. The Chinese meaning of Core is core or center. The literal meaning is enough to see its importance.

For the motherboard, the chipset almost determines the function of this motherboard, which in turn affects the performance of the entire computer system. The chipset is the soul of the motherboard. The chipset performance determines the motherboard performance and level.

CPU models and types are various, functional characteristics are different, if the chipset can not work well with the CPU, it will seriously affect the overall performance of the computer and even can not work normally.

acting functionality

Motherboard chipset determines almost all the functions of the motherboard.

North Bridge chip

CPU type and main frequency support, system cache support, motherboard system bus frequency, memory management (memory type, capacity and performance), graphics card slot specifications, ISA/PCI/AGP slot, ECC error correction support;

South Bridge chip

I/O support is provided, providing support for KBC (Keyboard Controller), RTC (Real Time Clock Controller), USB (Universal Serial Bus), Ultra DMA/33(66)EIDE data transfer mode and ACPI (Advanced Energy Management). And determine the type and number of expansion slots, the type and number of expansion interfaces (such as USB2.0/1.1, IEEE1394, serial port, parallel port, VGA output interface of notebook);

highly integrated chipsets

Greatly improve the reliability of the system chip, reduce the failure, reduce the production cost. For example, some chipsets that incorporate functions such as 3D accelerated display (integrated display chip) and AC'97 sound decoding also determine the display performance and audio playback performance of computer systems.

Identification of chipsets

This is also very easy, take Intel 440BX chipset as an example, its north bridge chip is Intel 82443BX chip, usually in the motherboard near the CPU slot position, due to the high heat generation of the chip, in this chip equipped with heat sink. The Southbridge chip is located near the ISA and PCI slots, and the chip name is Intel 82371EB. The other chipsets are arranged in basically the same position.

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