How many types of Intel main wrench chips are there? What s the difference?

Its role is to provide a working platform for other hardware, such as CPU graphics cards, memory modules.

Chipset: The chipset is the soul of the motherboard, and it determines the functions that the motherboard can support. At present, the common chipsets on the market are products from Intel, VIA, SIS, Ali, AMD and other companies.

Among them, Intel's mainstream products are 440BX, i820, i815 815e, etc. The company of VIA mainly has VIA

apollo

pro133/133a、kt

133 and other chipsets. SIS is primarily SIS

630 chipset. The main part of the Ali company is ALI

aladdin

TNT2 chipset, AMD has AMD

750 chipset. Among them, except for Intel's i820 and i815 815e chipsets, all chipsets are composed of two chips: the one close to the CPU is called the northbridge chip, which is mainly responsible for controlling the CPU, memory and display functions; The area near the PCI slot is called the South Bridge, which is mainly responsible for controlling the input and output (such as support for the UDMA 66 200 mode of the hard disk), soft sound, etc.

Intel's i820 and i815 815E chipsets use a new structure and consist of three chips. They are mch (memory

controller

hub, which functions similarly to Northbridge), ich (i o

controller

hub, which functions similarly to Southbridge), FWH (Fireware

hub, which functions similarly to a BIOS chip). Since the new chipset uses a specialized bus (commonly known as the acceleration hub structure AHA, acclerated

hubarchitecture) to connect the various devices of the motherboard, instead of using the PCI bus for data transmission as before, so there is a relatively large performance improvement when working with multiple devices.

The motherboard chipset used now is divided into several CPUs:

Intel's CPUs support chipsets: Intel series, VIA series, and SIS series.

The Intel series is the best, the next best in VIA, and the worst is SIS's AMD CPU, which supports the following chipsets: AMD series (AMD has also begun to make motherboard chips), VIA series, NVIDIA series.

AMD's own chips have not been tried yet, but it is estimated that it should be the best, NV's should be on the back burner, and VIA's is worse.

The current mainstream manufacturers of chipsets are: Intel, NVDIA, VIA, SIS, ULI, ATI (AMD), the best so far is Intel, followed by NVDIA, and the next arrangement is VIA, ATI, SIS, ULI

The nomenclature of a general motherboard declares the chip used. (For example, P5PI-E means that it supports Intel processors and uses Intel chipsets) Similarly, if it is P5PV-E, it means that VIA chipsets are used.

Intei chipset: P35 P45 G31 G32 G35 X58 X48 etc.

AMD chipset: 690G 780G 790FX 790GX and so on and so forth.

Anyway, that's quite a lot, so don't waste our time.

Now the biggest chip on the motherboard is Southbridge;

Northbridge. And then there's.

Sound control chip. chip in the network card. and other small ones.

Chip. The south bridge and the north bridge may also be integrated. Wait.