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Motherboard Types and Features

The X58 chipset works well for a gaming machine because it is designed to support

multiple video cards. The motherboard shown in Figure 3-8 has two PCI Express x16

slots that work with either of two technologies to install multiple video cards in the

same system. The two solutions are SLI (Scalable Link Interface) by NVIDIA and

CrossFire by ATI Technologies. You will see how to set up a dual video card gaming

PC in Chapter 7.

AMD purchased ATI Technologies, a maker of chipsets and graphics processors (called a

graphics processor unit or GPU), in 2006, which increased AMD chipset and GPU offerings.

Signiﬁcant chipsets by AMD include the following:

The AMD 7-series (AMD 790FX, 790X, 790GX, 780, and 770) chipsets are designed

with the gamer, hobbyist, and multimedia enthusiast in mind. They focus on good

graphics capabilities and support overclocking.

The AMD 580X Crossﬁre chipset supports ATI CrossFire.

The AMD 780V chipset is designed for business needs.

The AMD 740G and 690 chipsets are designed for low-end, inexpensive systems.

NVIDIA makes graphics processors and chipsets. Because the company specializes in

graphics, its nForce series of chipsets are great at supporting high-end graphics solutions

popular with gamers. In the past, nForce chipsets were made to work only with AMD

processors, but recently the nForce 700 series has been produced to work with the AMD

Phenom processor as well as the Intel Core 2 processor. Recall that NVIDIA’s method of

PCI

slots

PCI

slots

X58 North

Bridge

High-speed USB ports

ICH South

Bridge

DDR3 memory

Intel Core i7

processor

PCI Express x1slots

Ethernet gigabit

network connection

BIOS

support

PCI Express Version

2.0 Graphics:

Support for multicard

configuration including

1 x 16, 2 x 16, 4 x 8,

and other combina-

tions up to 36 lanes

High-definition audio

SATA and eSATA ports

PCI

slots

Figure 3-9 X58 chipset architecture

Courtesy: Course Technology/Cengage Learning

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