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[kendallcschm]

Originally Posted by MarkOne

Why I will loose my time to argue on that ... get a new board...

meh what ever.. it was purchased yesterday... which i already stated..

Originally Posted by Zero82z

Recent Biostar boards are pretty decent. Older ones like the OP is looking at are not.

agreed. The last ddr400 biocrap board i bought lasted 10 minutes.

[MarkOne]

Originally Posted by HaDeS

agreed. The last ddr400 biocrap board i bought lasted 10 minutes.

at least it was not DOA

[Zero82z]

Originally Posted by kendallcschm

the SB controls IDE, SATA, USB, Ethernet, Audio codec, Cmos, and PCI slots

The Southbridge does not control Ethernet or Audio interfaces. Also, newer southbridges do not have built-in IDE controllers; motherboards with IDE support rely on separate controller chips for that.

[kendallcschm]

Originally Posted by Zero82z

The Southbridge does not control Ethernet or Audio interfaces. Also, newer southbridges do not have built-in IDE controllers; motherboards with IDE support rely on separate controller chips for that.

then wikipedia has done me wrong

[Zero82z]

There's a reason Wikipedia is not an academically-acceptable source.

[kendallcschm]

Originally Posted by Zero82z

There's a reason Wikipedia is not an academically-acceptable source.

lmao so true.. lmao.. my technology teacher isn't much better.. i have asked him to explain what the north bridge and south bridge do and he said "same thing anything else on a computer does.. they process" .. best answer i got was here... so what specifically do they do.. i know they control things.. but what specifically does each one do.. i know the NB works with the memory and the CPU

this is what i have been looking at:
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/...ck_diagram.png

[MarkOne]

visit Intel web site , they have technical stuff for everything they sell


Laptop, Notebook, Desktop, Server and Embedded Processor Technology - Intel

[kendallcschm]

Originally Posted by MarkOne

visit Intel web site , they have technical stuff for everything they sell


Laptop, Notebook, Desktop, Server and Embedded Processor Technology - Intel

but you need to know what it means and does to understand the stuff on their site.. and i don't understand or know what it does

[MarkOne]

Originally Posted by kendallcschm

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this is what i have been looking at:
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/...ck_diagram.png

all true I have no interest in Nvidia chipset, I hope you see the difference with Intel one. On your diagram what is missing is the Sound card chips between the speaker outlet and the south bridge , and also the network ( nic ) chips even if the sound have is own controller, it pass by the south bridge before go to the sound chips. It's a diagram for the Chipset, so they show only the main component