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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrXwe21biJo&t=3s And the web page where Intel describes a chipset is here: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/gaming/resources/how-to-choose-a-motherboard.html If you enjoy this video you may also be interested in these earlier ExplainingComputers episodes: “Explaining Intel & AMD CPUs”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcxNdXnahOM “How do CPUs Work?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx-w2o-Lj8g and “The big.LITTLE CPU Revolution”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrBlWB2bxQU More videos on computing and related topics can be found at http://www.youtube.com/explainingcomputers You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: http://www.youtube.com/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 #Chipset #Intel #AMD #ExplainingComputers