What Is a Mainboard Chipset?

The chipset of the motherboard is the core component of the motherboard, which can be compared to the bridge between the CPU and peripheral devices. In the computer industry, the manufacturer designing the chipset is called Core Logic. The Chinese meaning of the Core is the core or the center, and its significance can be seen from the literal meaning. For the motherboard, the chipset almost determines the functions of this motherboard, which in turn affects the performance of the entire computer system. The chipset is the soul of the motherboard. The performance of the chipset determines the performance and level of the motherboard. At present, there are many types and types of CPUs, and different functions and features. If the chipset cannot work well with the CPU, it will seriously affect the overall performance of the computer or even not work properly.

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The chipset technology has also made rapid progress in recent years. From ISA, PCI to AGP, from ATA to SATA, Ultra DMA technology, dual-channel memory technology, high-speed front-side bus, etc., each new technology advancement has brought improvements in computer performance. . In 2004, there were major changes in chipset technology. The most noticeable one is the PCI Express bus technology, which will replace PCI and AGP, greatly increase the device bandwidth, and thus bring about a revolution in computer technology. On the other hand, chipset technology is also developing towards high integration. For example, AMD Athlon 64 CPU has integrated a memory controller, which greatly reduces the difficulty for chipset manufacturers to design products. And now chipset products have been integrated Audio, network, SATA, RAID and other functions have greatly reduced user costs. For different chipsets, there is also a gap in performance. In addition to the most common north-south bridge structure, the current chipset is developing at a higher level to accelerate the hub architecture. Intel's 8xx series chipset is the representative of this type of chipset. It integrates some subsystems such as IDE interface, sound effects, modem and modem. USB directly connects to the main chip, which can provide twice the bandwidth than the PCI bus, reaching 266MB / s.