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Bubbafat
August 28th, 2008, 20:54
Well i know what it does and the general idea, but it made me think putting together my friends computer and it didnt have one its like oO bloody hell every mobo i had and have worked on had southbridge!
MT
August 28th, 2008, 21:29
Controls data flow among the mechanical devices (HDD, CD drivers, USB ports)
Princess Garnet
August 28th, 2008, 21:30
Was this a board for an AMD setup? If I remember right, with the memory controller on AMD's chips, the Northbridge lost like 75% of it's purpose, and the two were condensed into the single chip.
Bubbafat
August 28th, 2008, 23:02
No it was 775, It was a Foxconn M7VMX-k, i think the letters and numbers are in right order...It was micro atx.
ElijahTW
August 28th, 2008, 23:13
could it be there and you're just missing it?
blueshogun96
August 29th, 2008, 00:08
Controls data flow among the mechanical devices (HDD, CD drivers, USB ports)

Sometimes it contains audio hardware too. This is how the nVidia NForce/MCP[X] works.
Bubbafat
August 29th, 2008, 00:49
Heres a newegg link, i dont see it ANYWHERE. Kinda odd..Newegg.com - Foxconn M7VMX-K LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 7050 / nForce 610i Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186138)


It was actually a decent board...Coulda put that in my micro atx case thats not in use...:evil:
runawayprisoner
August 29th, 2008, 01:22
I think those bozos at Newegg just forgot to put the Southbridge in. :p The chip in front of the PCI-E and PCI slots looks a lot like a southbridge chip... and imho, it is.
Fadingz
August 29th, 2008, 01:26
it definitely has one lol, or it cannot use a hdd. [and it is in the pic lol]
Look into the BIOS to see the name.
Princess Garnet
August 29th, 2008, 06:37
Well, whether it's for an AMD or Intel CPU seems to matter not, so I guess my guess was wrong. I do notice that any motherboard that has an Intel northbridge also has a southbridge. Perhaps some of the lesser nVidia (and others, like SIS, VIA, etc.) chipsets have the northbridge and southbridge merged as one, or perhaps the southbridge is so small that it's either the chip runawayprisoner guessed or it's the one by the RAM slots. You see third party chipsets more on AMD boards, so that's why I thought it was related to the memory controller of their chips being on the CPU. Either they're condensed, or they're physically smaller and moved.