south bridge
NorthBridge
The northbridge chip. The northbridge connects to the CPU through the front-side bus (FSB) and connects to the RAM through the memory bus.
CPU, RAM, CPU chip, Motherboard, Proccessor, hardrive, cd/dvd drive, floppy drive, wires.
Northbridge
RAM can be part of the CPU.
No. Changing a CPU is very similar to changing a ram chip, and neither should cause any loss of data or programs stored on the hard drive.
I am not quite sure how significant this is. The reason, however, is that accessing a register, which is part of the CPU, is faster than accessing RAM memory, which is located on a separate chip.I am not quite sure how significant this is. The reason, however, is that accessing a register, which is part of the CPU, is faster than accessing RAM memory, which is located on a separate chip.I am not quite sure how significant this is. The reason, however, is that accessing a register, which is part of the CPU, is faster than accessing RAM memory, which is located on a separate chip.I am not quite sure how significant this is. The reason, however, is that accessing a register, which is part of the CPU, is faster than accessing RAM memory, which is located on a separate chip.
the main parts the motherboard is connected to are: the gpu, cpu, ram, internet card, HDD (or SSD), optical drive
This would ONLY be true if the computer had been built with insufficient cash memory. Cash memory is faster than RAM and its IO performance is matched to the processing speed of the CPU chip. The cash sits between the CPU and the RAM, pre-fetching the data the CPU will need next. It therefore needs to be large enough to ensure that the processor does not use all the data in the cash before more can be staged in from the RAM. After this adding more cash will not improve performance further. Knowing this many chip manufacturers build in the cash needed for the CUP as part of the chip.
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The memory controller hub in a PC -- often called the northbridge -- is one of two chips in the core logic chipset on a PC motherboard; the other chip in the set is usually called the southbridge. The northbridge typically handles communications among the CPU, the RAM, the BIOS ROM, the PCI-E (or AGP) video adapter, and the southbridge chip.
It can't.