southbridges

You can only unlock it with certain southbridges, and you're going to spend at least $20 more on a motherboard with that particular southbridge.

Newegg.com RSS Feed - Daily Deals 2010

Thaiphoon Burner supports for 25 Intel ICHx southbridges and 7 VIA southbridges: VT8231,

Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Windows 2010

Along with a Pentium M core clocked between 600MHz and 1. 2GHz, initial Tolopai chips are expected to integrate components traditionally found in PC northbridges and southbridges -- a graphics processing unit (GPU), external memory and storage controllers, and peripheral interfaces such as USB and Ethernet.

WindowsForDevices.com 2009

Compatible with the ultra compact VIA Nano, VIA C7 and VIA Eden processor families, the VIA VX855 MSP integrates northbridge and southbridges functions into a 27mm ×

DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia 2009

We've had this discussion before: bandwidth can be an issue on older southbridges riding the PCI bus, but even on modern chipsets with plenty of bandwidth the real overhead is the latency the transfers create for IO operations, not the calculations themselves.

The Tech Report: News 2009

Garbage AMD chipsets with their supbar southbridges do not impress me nor will it impress the masses given the choice between that and Intel excellence.

bit-tech.net Feed 2009

Thinking of the way in which a motherboard is laid out, the central brain of any motherboard, the chipset, usually split into north and southbridges, is connected to the rest of the system via a number of links.

HEXUS.net : News 2009

To get around this, chipset designers had to architect southbridges with an increasing number of the aforementioned technologies already amalgamated on-chip.

HEXUS.net : News 2009

Modern southbridges support multiple RAID levels via software, but do they deliver decent performance?

News Tom's Hardware US 2009