What is a Chipset as Fast As Possible
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·Techquickie
·2015-05-07
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what is a chipet you might ask to which I might reply a fantastic Sunday
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afternoon on the couch where you and all your buddies have all the selection of
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snacks you could possibly want but that would be a silly answer because I'm
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pretty sure you me your question in the context of Technology where the meaning
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is actually very different a chipset acts as a Communications Hub and traffic
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control center on a motherboard the backbone of a PC it determines your
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motherboard's compatibility with everything from the CPU to storage
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devices and graphics cards influences future system expansion capabilities and
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even affects support for advanced features like overclocking the process
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of turning up the speed of your system past manufacturer specifications
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traditionally a chipset would consist of two components the Northbridge which was
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connected directly to the CPU and handled high-speed communication between
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the CPU and performance sensitive components like system memory graphics
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cards and the South Bridge which was connected to the North Bridge and acted
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as a communication hub for Less performance sensitive components storage
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devices USB ports onboard networking sound chips Etc so that's where the name
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came from it quite literally means a set of chips or integrated circuits on a
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motherboard but in modern computers and we're going to use the latest and
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greatest Intel x99 chipset as our example today the chipset is really very
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different it still dictates CPU compatibility so in this case it's
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designed to work with core i7 5000 series six core and 8 core CPUs in the
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LGA 20113 socket all of which require
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ddr4 memory and are compatible with PCI Express gen 3 graphics cards and other
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expansion cards but that's where the differences start to pop up memory PCI
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Express expansion and I mean really that's most of what used to be the north
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Bridge's job and now it's built right into your shiny new CPU so the x99 chip
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set is actually one chip that instead of
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Southbridge Intel now calls a PCH or
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platform controller Hub this newer design has a couple of positive effects
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first with performance sensitive components communicating directly with
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the CPU rather than through a North Bridge system latency is reduced and
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responsiveness is increased this is great for performance enthusiasts and
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Gamers who want to take full advantage of the up to 40 PCIe gen 3 lanes that
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support up to four simultaneous graphics cards and other exotic configurations
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and second as traditionally less demanding components like hard drives
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and USB ports continue to increase in
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performance with x99 supporting up to 10 SATA 3 ports that can run ssds instead
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of hard drives and six usb3 ports that
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operate at about 10 times the throughput of USB 2 this allows those devices to
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make only one jump over the much higher performance DMI 2.0 interface rather
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than two jumps to communicate with the CPU which again improves system
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performance so while the number of chips in the set has been reduced to only one
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the functionality is still the same for x99 as it was for 875 P the high
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performance chipset back when I first got into PCS reduce potential
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bottlenecks and facilitate smooth communication between all components for
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