Northbridge Chip

Northbridge Chip

This chipset is located near the processor socket, serves to connect and control the processor to system memory and graphics systems. Usually large size compared to most other chips in the motherboard. Some motherboards adding heatsinks or cooling fans on the chip so that the chip itself is enclosed by a fan.

Southbridge Chipset

Southbridge Chipset

Part of the small size of the motherboard chipset on the northbridge functions of connecting and controlling the IDE bus, PCI, keyboard, mouse, USB and power management. Some also provide facilities southbridge chip sound card chip embedded in it.

Processor Socket

Processor Socket

Serves to place the processor socket on the motherboard. Socket shapes differ depending on the type of processor used.

Motherboards

Motherboard

The motherboard is the board which is plugged in computer components and can be interconnected. There are so many types of motherboards but the quality is determined by the motherboard chipset that is embedded in it, such as Gigabyte, Intel, SIS, NVIDIA nForce, VIA, and others.The motherboard is a resource center that regulates the work of all connected components.Also the motherboard is also arrange provision of electric power on every PC component.On the motherboard installed some components, such as the holder for both the processor and the socket-shaped slot, memory sockets, AGP slot, PCI slots, ISA slots, chipset, CMOS and other supporting components.