SiS Releases Chipset for Athlon64 FX

[Logan2002]

WOW 8gb/sec fsb. Even if you will not usually the theoritcal "max"
the avg would be alot better than intels 800mhz fsb.

[SLX]

Yum fast!;)

[doubleclick]

This might not be the right place, but as I just read it here I go:

Can somebody explain in short the difference between north and south bridge? It has nothing to do with "entry" and "exit" of the processor, right?

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[dosmastr]

northbridge and southbridge make up what is called the chipset of the board, if the cpu is the brain, the chipset is like the nervious system, aswell as part of the brain i guess

like a stoplight almost, it delegates traffice.

the northie in most computers controls the bus's speeds (agp, pci, and front side bus) and traffic, the memory interface, and the agp slot

the south bridge has been growing alot lately, for the last 10 years or more it has been responsible for hard drive control, as well as the many ports on the back of the system,
with serial ATA and new(ish) USB and Firewire ports being added to PC's the southbridge has been getting an update..... also in nvideas chipsets the southbridge houses the audio processing unit. (if the board has one)

this might not be 100% engineere type accurate, but for someone just learning about this stuff, i think its a good start.

now for the topic at hand,

lately the bottleneck has been on the bus speed, especially if you have an add in RAID card, the system sometimes actually has to tell componenets to hang on to their data, because the highway is full at this cycle, and can't handle any more..... this obviously causes a slowdown, and this much faster bus that sis's new chipset allows may yield some performance benefits.

[doubleclick]

Thanx! ;)