Monday, November 21, 2011

IC chipset is a small size that the computer is like a "traffic cop" on the main board (motherboard), directs the flow of data and determine what devices are supported by a Personal Computer (PC). A chipset directs the data from the CPU to the chipset. While the chipset is divided into two major components namely, Northbridge and Southbridge. Northbridge memory set Chace, Main Memory, Host Bus and PCI expansion slot. While Soutbridge set ISA Bus, and the bridge between the ISA Bus and PCI Bus, regulate and control the I / O ports and an IDE slot. The chipset also determines the speed of the front-side bus, memory bus and bus graphics, as well as the capacity and type of memory supported motherboard. Besides that, the chipset directs the flow of data through the PCI bus, IDE drives and I / O ports and IDE standards also specify the type of ports supported by the system.

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