Chipset

Folks:


* Can anyone explain the purpose of the chipset on the motherboard of a
compute ?

Any information or references appreciated


Thanks

A motherboard is a place where all the essential parts of a
computer are assembled or connected. Companies such as
INTEL design the chips and then sell chips to other
companies that make motherboards, such as ASUS or GIGABYTE.

A chipset is a family of chips that are designed to work
together.

Without a chipset, the CPU [central processor unit] is just
a chip.



<JoJo> wrote in message
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| Folks:
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| * Can anyone explain the purpose of the chipset on the
motherboard of a
| compute ?
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| Any information or references appreciated
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|
| Thanks
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|

Try this link
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=chipset

JoJo wrote:

> Folks:
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>
> * Can anyone explain the purpose of the chipset on the motherboard of a
> compute ?
>
> Any information or references appreciated
>
>
> Thanks
>
>

<JoJo> wrote in message news:OQl025u4GHA.4616@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Folks:
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> * Can anyone explain the purpose of the chipset on the motherboard of a
> compute ?
>
> Any information or references appreciated
>
>
> Thanks
>

There's more than one chipset. Primary purpose is to control data flow via
timing circuits cues.
http://www.intel.com/products/chips...=prod_nav+chip&

--
Jonny

A chipset is a series of IC chips which "controls" how each motherboard
component (CPU, RAM, drives etc..) can be accessed. We need s "driver"
installed so that XP can understand how to communicate to this chipset
correctly.



On 28/09/2006 <JoJo> wrote:
>Folks:
>
>
> * Can anyone explain the purpose of the chipset on the motherboard of a
>compute ?
>
> Any information or references appreciated
>
>
>Thanks
>
>

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Y.

JoJo wrote:
> Folks:
>
>
> * Can anyone explain the purpose of the chipset on the motherboard of a
> compute ?
>
> Any information or references appreciated
>
>
> Thanks
>
>


From Whatis.com
(http://searchsmb.techtarget.com/sDe...i211781,00.html):

A chipset is a group of integrated circuits (microchips) that can be
used together to serve a single function and are therefore manufactured
and sold as a unit. For example, one chipset might combine all the
microchips needed to serve as the communications controller between a
processor and memory and other devices in a computer.


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