Newbie question - what's north/south bridge?

[tigershark]

Can someone briefly explain what this refers to? I see it in the articles, but can't figure out what it signifies by context alone. Thanks.

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[FatBurger]

The chipset is comprised of two things, the North and South bridges. The Northbridge is alwas under a heatsink (sometimes with a fan, sometimes not), and controlls the CPU, memory and AGP. It's usually positioned right between the CPU, RAM and AGP slot. The Southbridge controls everything else; PS/2, USB, IDE, PCI, etc. It's usually positioned to the right of the PCI slots (if you hold the board with the CPU socket at the top), wich no heatsink.

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[tigershark]

Perfectly clear. Thanks.

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