"Gigabyte GA EP 45 DQ6" question!
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What is this(the part I circle)?
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could that be the heatsink for one of the major chips?
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more heatsink?
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It should be the storage controller (Intel ICH9)
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i think underneath the heatsink is the southbridge.
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it should be the southbridge, which will crash if ur graphic card emits toooooo much heat
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what i was guessing...
at first i thot it was northbridge la ><
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i tink the northbridge is the one with the bigger heatsink beside the socket, but nto the long one
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Yup, shud be the south bridge... if im not wrong... the smaller bit attached to it is the ICH9 controller... the 4 ethernet plug is overkill though, i think...=S
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Originally posted by Anonymous User:
Yup, shud be the south bridge... if im not wrong... the smaller bit attached to it is the ICH9 controller... the 4 ethernet plug is overkill though, i think...=S
What is south bridge means?What's that for?
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Originally posted by Animetshop:
What is south bridge means?What's that for?
to connect all ur other devices to e processor. (i.e HDD, gpu, power, pci, pci-e etc...)
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wah im amazed how u guys know these stuff lawls so cool.. sorry computer noob here.. lawls~
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Originally posted by dinky1409:
wah im amazed how u guys know these stuff lawls so cool.. sorry computer noob here.. lawls~
usually i'll just look at what the chip is surrounded by. theres always a north and south bridge chips.
the northbridge controls CPU and RAM, so it'll be placed near it.
the southbridge controls, PCI, PCI-E, USB and other peripherals, so it'll be placed near them too.