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North Bridge, South Bridge, what do they do?

2004-09-02, 6:29 AM #1

Obi_Kwiet

It's Stuart, Martha Stuart

Posts: 7,943

Ok, I know basically the internal workings of a PC, and what the components do, as I built one earlier this spring. But, I still don't know (exactly) what a Northbridge (FSB) or South Bridge do. As far as I can tell, the Northbridge sorts out instructions to be sent to the VPU and the CPU. And I think the Southbridge coordinates stuff like USB, Firewire, ATA, CD drive, ect. Am I right?

The reason I ask this is because I was assigned an oral report on something, so I picked the PC, because that would be pretty easy for me. Well that, and I was curious.

2004-09-02, 7:05 AM #2

finity5

I dont need no stinking title

Posts: 2,693

[http://www-tus.csx.cam.ac.uk/techlink/workshops/2001-11-21_inside_the_pc/img021.gif]

Found a better pic [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

[edit]Nevermind, stupid alpha channel [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

Bah, that is an old pic, its missing AGP, connected to the northbridge of course [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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2004-09-02, 7:05 AM #3

LividDK

One Angry Monkey

Posts: 3,413

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci750982,00.html

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