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Chipset facts for kids

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Motherboard diagram
Diagram of a motherboard. Items labelled "Northbridge" and "Southbride" and "Super I/O" are chipsets.

A chipset is an arrangement of several integrated circuits which fulfill a given task. When talking about computers, chipset is the name for an arrangement of circuits on a motherboard that supports a microprocessor.

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  • Pentium E2220 with Intel i945GC Chipset

    Intel i945GC Northbridge with Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2220 2.40 GHz on an Intel D945GCCR motherboard (circa 2007)

  • IBM ThinkPad T42 Motherboard

    A part of an IBM T42 laptop motherboard. CPU: Central processing unit. NB: Northbridge. GPU: Graphics processing unit. SB: Southbridge.

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