North Bridge, South Bridge... Help!!!!

[jakec]

So, I want the ASUS P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe Motherboard. It has a North Bridge nForce chipset, but I don't see the South Bridge chipset listed. I don't know what this means, but I think all the other motherboards I've looked at have both.... What does this mean? What are the advantages and disadvantages? I appreciate reading the advice. Thanks. By the way, I'm looking to overclock, so let me know if the chipsets effect that as well!

 

[BaronMatrix]

So, I want the ASUS P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe Motherboard. It has a North Bridge nForce chipset, but I don't see the South Bridge chipset listed. I don't know what this means, but I think all the other motherboards I've looked at have both.... What does this mean? What are the advantages and disadvantages? I appreciate reading the advice. Thanks. By the way, I'm looking to overclock, so let me know if the chipsets effect that as well!

nVidia has for the most part moved to a single chip chipset so the So Bridge is the same name as the No Bridge.

 

[SciPunk]

I don't know if that's exactly accurate. Surely somthing is sitting in the location where your southbridge normally sits...
P5N32-SLI Deluxe

It's even got those crazy heat pipes connected.

It does seem that the Southbridge is using the same name as the Northbridge... "NVIDIA® nForce4 SLI"

But the new NForce570 chipset is out now, so consider it instead of nForce4:
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