2 Nov
2001
2 Nov
'01
12:21
And the difference between a Northbridge and a Southbridge chip is?
The North Bridge is named because it is the connection between the high speed processor bus (200/133/100/66MHz)and the slower AGP (66MHz) and PCI (33MHz) buses. The North Bridge is what the chipset is named after, meaning that, for example, what we call the 440BX chipset is actually derived fromthe fact that the actual North Bridge chip part number for that set is 82443BX. The south bridge is so named because it is the bridge between the PCI bus (33MHz) and the even slower ISA bus (8MHz). Taken from Scott Muellers upgrading and reparing PC's 12 Edition. Where I first learned of them ;) Regards, Robb Bloomfield