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| 503992 | 2006-12-03 17:21:00 | I'm looking at the intel website, and wondering, what is a 'chipset'. It's not a processor.. it's not a motherboard.. but it seems to be something related to the two of them.. What exactly does it do? And.. if anyone has photos or tell me where one would be installed, that would be nice too.. | Callistra (11563) | ||
| 503993 | 2006-12-03 19:18:00 | This term is used to describe the architecture of an integrated circuit. For example, the chipset of a modem card would be much different than the chipset of a computer's CPU. Processors themselves also have different chipsets. For example, a Pentium II and Pentium III have slightly different chipsets, and the PowerPC processors have other kinds. From this page (www.netchico.com). Lots of info here (www.google.com) if you want to know more. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 503994 | 2006-12-03 20:08:00 | You were most likely looking at the motherboard chipset. There are 2 other chips which are part of the board. They control various functions like the the USB, PCI, IDE ports, and communication between the CPU and RAM. That sort of thing. They are made by different companies so you might for instance get an ASUS motherboard with an Nvidia chipset or VIA chipset. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 503995 | 2006-12-04 04:21:00 | The original IBM PC had about 150 14 and 16 pin "chips" (integrated circuit packages) on the motherboard, as well as the 40 pin CPU and a few other "big" (40, 32, 28 pin) chips which provided the BIOS, clock, BASIC interpreter, keyboard, etc functions . All the chips were in sockets, so they could be individually replaced if faulty . A Floppy disk controller, or hard disk controller had lots of chips, too . (An MFM disk controller was a "full length card") . Soon after the PC AT came out, the "Super I/O chip" appeared . That was the first "chipset" : it provided a floppy disk controller, hard disk controller, 2 serial ports, a parallel port, a games port, all in one package, and although it was still on a plugin card, it replaced up to four cards . The bus interface was still on the motherboard, so there were quite a few packages on that . Now your motherboards has about half a dozen packages which does all that all those chips did . The recognisable one (and probably the only one in a socket) now is the CPU . :D All the other functions are provided by a few packages with a hundred or so pins . They are the "chipset" . As well as the cost saving of having more functions in one package, it makes it possible for the computers to run as fast as they do now . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 503996 | 2006-12-04 04:52:00 | : #444444; font-style : italic; "> The original IBM PC had about 150 14 and 16 pin "chips" : #444444; font-style : italic; "> (integrated circuit packages) on the motherboard, as well as the 40 pin CPU and a few other "big" : #444444; font-style : italic; "> (40, 32, 28 pin) chips which provided the BIOS, clock, BASIC interpreter, keyboard, etc functions : #444444; font-style : italic; "> . : #444444; font-style : italic; "> All the chips were in sockets, so they could be individually replaced if faulty : #444444; font-style : italic; "> . : #444444; font-style : italic; "> A Floppy disk controller, or hard disk controller had lots of chips, too : #444444; font-style : italic; "> . : #444444; font-style : italic; "> (An MFM disk controller was a "full length card") : #444444; font-style : italic; "> . : #444444; font-style : italic; "> Soon after the PC AT came out, the "Super I/O chip" appeared : #444444; font-style : italic; "> . : #444444; font-style : italic; "> That was the first "chipset" : it provided a floppy disk controller, hard disk controller, 2 serial ports, a parallel port, a games port, all in one package, and although it was still on a plugin card, it replaced up to four cards : #444444; font-style : italic; "> . The bus interface was still on the motherboard, so there were quite a few packages on that : #444444; font-style : italic; "> . Now your motherboards has about half a dozen packages which does all that all those chips did : #444444; font-style : italic; "> . The recognisable one (and probably the only one in a socket) now is the CPU : #444444; font-style : italic; "> . : D All the other functions are provided by a few packages with a hundred or so pins : #444444; font-style : italic; "> . They are the "chipset" : #444444; font-style : italic; "> . As well as the cost saving of having more functions in one package, it makes it possible for the computers to run as fast as they do now : #444444; font-style : italic; "> . We used to have commonly called North & South bridges (chipsets) : #444444; font-style : italic; "> . The North was for the cpu/ram/agp bus, South for pci/usb/ata etc : #444444; font-style : italic; "> . Now they are becoming once and the same, with dual bridges for extra pci-e lanes etc : #444444; font-style : italic; "> . : #444444; font-style : italic; "> . The chipsets control the communications of the different components that make up your computer : #444444; font-style : italic; "> . |
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