Chipset

A chipset (literally together of chips ) is a play of Electronics components integrated in a Integrated circuit canned making it possible to manage the data flows Numérique S between the processor (S), the memory and the peripherals. One finds some in electronic devices of the type Micro-ordinateur, video Game console, Mobile phone, numerical Camera, GPS etc

Features

A chipset for Micro-ordinateur is on the Mother chart. It is specifically conceived for a type of Microprocesseur and plays a big role in the flexibility of the exchanges of the same chart. The total performances of the computer thus depend mainly on the chipsets and that of the Microprocesseur.

Its role is to manage data flows Numérique S between the Microprocesseur and the different components and under - units of components of the mother chart, Bus data-processing, random access memory (RAM), direct access with memory (DMA), Bus IDE or Serial ATA, NCV, AGP, Hard drive, Data-processing network, Port series, parallel Port, USB, FireWire, keyboard, mouse, Entrées-Sorties, Graphics card, Carte its, Hyper-Threading, Face side drunk, disk drive and input-outputs in general etc

He is often broken up into two chips: the Northbridge or SPP and the Southbridge or MCP. The manufacturer of the chipset perhaps different from that or board manufacturer mother of the Microprocessor but must be compatible.

The capacities maximum of evolution of a PC compatible are often directly related to the chipsets that it contains (maximum graphic resolution, maximum number of colors, cuts maximum memory, size hard drive maximum, standard of bar maximum managed memory RAM, maximum speed of the buses, etc…)

This term was also used in the Années 1980 and Années 1990 to indicate the audio and graphic chips in the computers or the game consoles, with for example the chipset of origin of Amiga (Original Amiga chipset) or that of the Sega System 16. Some chipsets graphic current as the nForce of NVIDIA integrate functionalities enabling them to replace completely a graphics card (video chipset). The graphic memory of the video chipset being generally taken on the random access memory of the computer, therefore when one installs for example 512 Mo of random access memory, the system detects only 448 of them Mo (64 Mo being dedicated to the graphic memory). Nevertheless and this, more and more often, the random access memory is divided and dedicated either.

Principal manufacturers of chipsets compatible for PC in the world

  • Drunk Intel
    • i845E/GV 533 MHz AGP4 2Go GDR PC2700 max
    • i850e i855G (855GME for Pentium M)
    • i865G/P (4Go GDR 2 channels FSB 533 MHz AGP8 serial ATA
    • i875p = i865 optimized
    • E7205 (for P4 waiter), E7500/E7501/E7505 (for Xeon waiter), E7520/E7525/E7530 (waiter Bi-Xeon)
    • 910GML/GMZ, 915GM/PM, 945PM/GM
      • 945PM/GM + Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG + Intel Core Solo = Centrino (3rd generation)
      • 945PM/GM + Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG + Intel Core Duo = Centrino Duo
    • 910GL, 915P/PL/G/GL/GV, 925X/XE, 945P/PL/G/GZ, 955X (For Pentium D/XE)
    • 963Q, 965P/G/Q, 975X (For Intel Core 2 Duet)

  • VIA Technologies (AMD)

    • VIA KT133 KT133A
    • VIA KT266A FSB 200/266 MHz AGP4
    • VIA KT333
    • VIA Apollo KT400A (Serial ATA)
    • VIA P4X400
    • K8T400M

  • NVIDIA

  • Graphics card:
    • TNT : TNT2 Pro, Ultra TNT2, TNT2 Model 64 (M64), TNT Model 64 (M64) Pro
    • Praised, Vanta LT
    • GeForce 1: 256, GDR
    • GeForce 2: GTS, Pro, TI, Ultra, MX, MX100, MX200, MX400, MX Integrated graphics
    • GeForce 3: TI200, TI500
    • GeForce 4: MX 420, MX440, MX440-SE, MX460, MX Integrated graphics, MX 4000, TI 4200, TI4400, TI4600, TI4800, TI4800SE
    • GeForce 5: FX5100, FX5200, FX 5200LE, Ultra FX 5200, FX5500, FX5600, Ultra FX5600, FX5600 SE, FX5600 XT, FX5700, FX5700 VE, Ultra FX5700, FX5700 IT, FX5800, Ultra FX5800, FX5900, Ultra FX5900, FX5900 XT, FX5900 ZT, Ultra FX5950, PCX 5300, PCX 5750, PCX 5900
    • GeForce 6: 6100, 6150 IT, 6150, 6200, 6200 IT, 6200 TC, 6200 SE TC, 6500, 6600, 6600 IT, 6600 VE, 6600 WP, 6610 XL, 6700 XL, 6800, 6800 IT, 6800 XE, 6800 XT, 6800 GS, 6800 WP, 6800 Ultra
    • GeForce 7: 7100 GS, 7300 IT, 7300 SE, 7300 GS, 7300 WP, 7500 IT, 7600 GS, 7600 WP, 7800 GS, 7800 WP, 7800GTX, 7900 GS, 7900 GTO, 7900 WP, 7900 GTX, 7950 GX2
    • GeForce 8: 8300 GS, 8400 GS, 8500 WP, 8600 WP, 8600 GTS, 8800 GTS, 8800 GTX
    • Quadro 2: MXR, DCC, PRO, EX
    • Quadro 4: 200, 400 NVS, 380, 500, 550, 580, 700, 750, 780, 900, 980 XGL
    • Quadro FX: 330, 350, 500, 540, 550, 560, 600, 700, 1000, 1100, 1300, 1400, 1500, 2000, 3000, 3000G, 3400, 3450, 3500, 4000 SDI, 4400, 4400G, 4500, 4500SDI, 4500X2, 5500, 5500SDI
    • Quadro NVS: 200, 210s, 280, 280SD, 400, 440, 280PCI, 285
  • Chipset:
    • nForce 1:
    • nForce 2: Ultra 400Gb, Ultra 400R, Ultra 400.
    • nForce 3: Go, Professional.
    • nForce 4: SLI Intel, Series AMD, SLI/XE Ultra Intel, Intel x16.
    • nForce 5: 520, SLI/570/550 AMD, 590SLI AMD, 570 SLI Intel, 590 SLI Intel.
    • nForce 6: 650i, SLI/650i Ultra, 680a SLI, 680 SLI/680i LT SLI.

See too

Related articles

External bonds and documents

  • List of chipsets AMD
  • List of the chipsets Intel
  • List of chipsets NVIDIA

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