Z68
P67
H67
^^ what does it all mean?
are there more versions? H68? P68? Z67?
1155, 2011, 775, 1366?? which sockets work on which?
amd is even more confusing :
990FX
890FX
890GX
880G
740/780G
any help pls? just some basic differences across vendors and platforms, thanks!!
Motherboard chipsets are like onboard graphics
motherboard companies do not produce all the components that you find on it. They actually assemble all the parts and present it in market. For that they acquire different parts from different places. the PCB (printed circuit board) itself comes from a different company. For ex:
say GIGABYTE mobo: The socket, the ram slots, the northbridge, south bridge, PCI, PCIE all these are assemled in the factories of GIGABYTE. According to the processor mobo socket will vary. For INTEL, socket will be of INTEL LINE for AMD, socket will be of AMD LINE. Now each type processor supports upto a level of socket on which it sits. So with evolution of PROCESSORS socket also changes. in each mother board the total components are divided into three parts. refer this According to the pic the main three parts are the socket, northbridge and southbridge controll total mobo components. The chipset with "g" means integrated graphics and without means separate GPU required for display in monitor.
FACTORY TOUR
nan-ping
Hope this will throw some light.
yeah, but i want to know the differences between chipsets.
like amd 880 and 890
It's (Intel ones) explained in a simple way here buddy.
In very simple words, Motherboard chipsets are the big chip where controllers of all the components are present. It can be divided into two parts; Southbridge and Northbridge.
Normally Northbirgde contain the controllers for the components which needs faster CPU access. Memory Controller, PCI-Express/AGP controller etc are placed inside the Notrthbridge. Now most of them have been embedded inside the CPU die.
Southbridge contains all the other component's like USB controllers, SATA controllers, IEEE or E-Sata controller etc.
You are asking about the difference between 880G and 890GX...it's like 890GX is more feature rich, it offers more bandwitdh so can accomodate higher number of PCI-E lanes, more number of USB ports etc.
Apart from this Southbridge do have an Oscillator which strengthen the signals going to and from. The communication medium is basically electric signal, 5Volt or 1..0V or 0. In practical there is no such exact 5V or 0V and there is always an amout of fluctuation present. So suppose somehowthe 5V signal somehow discharges some current and lowered to 3V. It is the circuitry of Southbridge which detects these kinda changes by some algorithm and regenerates the signal.
^^You know in wrong or partially wrong. 890GX has IGP HD 4290 whereas 890FX doesn't have. Same is true with 990X and 990FX.
Sorry bro I thought there is one version of 890 chipset thanks though for correcting me.
^^ Yup
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If it ever had any type of video output. :*
Chipsets are chipsets. Sockets are sockets.
A motherboard has a chipset and a socket.
Chipsets will definite what all features your motherboard is likely to have.
Socket will define which CPU can fit in.
Hardware evolves. Chipset evolve. New features come in.
CPU evolve. Sockets evolve and may/may not change.
Chipsets and sockets may evolve together. Or you may see a new chipset motherboard with the old socket.
Closing this thread. Because all questions you have asked can be sorted out with the help of Wikipedia.
