North Bridge and South Bridge
Beginning with the Intel 1800 chipset, there are two main chips of the chipset. These are called the Northbridge and the Southbridge.
Motherboard is a Printed Circuit board (PCB) in which chipsets are designed like Intel 965 chipset
North and South bridge
a hub is used
Intel. nVidia. SIS. ATI, VIA and Ali used to make chipsets for intel, but have all stopped for various reasons.
1. * Q06: How can I tell if my motherboard supports Ultra DMA? A06: Pentium motherboards that have the Intel TX Chipset, Pentium II motherboards starting with the Intel LX, BX and subsequent Intel Chipsets have UDMA capability. The chipset is displayed on system startup, which is called CMOS Setup. If unsure, consult system or motherboard documentation or manufacturer for chipset and UDMA performance verification.
The fast end of the hub, called the North bridge, contains the graphic and memory controller, and connects directly to the processor by way of 64- bit bus, called the Front Side Bus (FSB), System Bus or host bus.
Please do a Google search with "Intel chipsets" or go directly to the Intel website on the following page: http://www.Intel.com/design/chipsets/linecard.htm - Neeraj Sharma
that quad-core model uses the Intel LGA775 chipset
Federico Faggin and Ted Hoff were the chief designers of the first Intel chipset called "Intel 4004". The Intel 4004 was a 4-bit central processing unit made from 1971 to 1981.
a chipset is a set of chips on the motherboard that collectively control the memory, buses on the motherboard, and some peripherals. High-performances chipsets-the X58bchipset supports the Intel LGA1366scoket Mainstream desktop chipsets-The P45,P43,P35,G45 and G31 chipset supports Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo Intel processers. Value desktop-The 910GL,845E,845G chipset supports the Pentium 4,Celeron,and Celeron, and Celeron D processors in low-end systems. Older value desktops-the 845 and 845GL chipset support the Pentium 4 or Celeron processeor in a low-end system using the 478PGA socket
2GB total, though that may mean 1GB per slot. reference: http://www.intel.com/products/notebook/chipsets/915gm/915gm-overview.htm