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Anonymous   07-11-2001 at 11:35:57 PM

Afternoon all,

I'm very new to the hardware-level troubleshooting and meddling. These forums have been an excellent source of info and I've learned a ton of new stuff over the past couple days of reading. One question, though: Could somebody either explain, or point me to an explanation of, the northbridge and southbridge?

Thanks for all the great information!

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FatBurger   07-12-2001 at 12:06:03 AM
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The Northbridge controls the CPU, RAM, AGP bus, and the Southbridge, I believe.
The Southbridge controls the PCI/ISA busses, IDE controllers, all ports, and...I'm forgetting something I think.

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Anonymous   07-12-2001 at 12:14:48 AM
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Thanks!

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FatBurger   07-12-2001 at 05:57:23 PM
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TTT!
I want to make sure I'm right.

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Anonymous   07-12-2001 at 06:01:51 PM
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According to the good folks at DFI:

You are right. This particular mobo uses the VIA 686B chipset for the Southbridge and the AMD 760 chipset for the Northbridge. Still, I can't get my bloody Radeon to stop crashing my games. But hey, thanks for the info!

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