Explaining Motherboard Chipsets

Motherboard chipsets explained, including why chipsets are needed and what they do, legacy Northbridge / Southbridge chipsets, and modern platform controller hubs. Plus information on current and recent Intel and AMD chipsets and their processor compatibilities.

My previous video “Explaining PCIe cards” is here: Explaining PCIe Slots

And the web page where Intel describes a chipset is here: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/...

If you enjoy this video you may also be interested in these earlier ExplainingComputers episodes:

“Explaining Intel & AMD CPUs”:
Explaining Intel & AMD CPUs

“How do CPUs Work?”:
How Do CPUs Work? and

“The big.LITTLE CPU Revolution”:
The big.LITTLE CPU Revolution: From A...

More videos on computing and related topics can be found at explainingcomputers

You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: explainingthefuture

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:42 Motherboard interfaces
03:12 Chipset Evolution
06:18 Intel Chipsets
09:52 AMD Chipsets
11:46 The Silicon Backbone

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