what is a south bridge?

[pts2800]

what is a southbridge on the mobo? and how does it differ from the northbridge. all i know is that the northbridge determines what cpu one gets.

 

[Kharn]

Southbridge & - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[pts2800]

thanks chris

 

[Kharn]

no problem.

 

[CalcProgrammer1]

Southbridge is basically a second chip that interfaces the northbridge to other peripherals (PCI slots, sometimes IDE or USB ports, audio, sometimes video [may be on northbridge]). It's part of the chipset (the set of north and southbridge chips) and usually a particular southbridge only works with a few or only one northbridge.

 

[ricanflow]

Theres also single chip solutions, like the nforce chipset.