Do I need to buy a motherboard with either Nvidia chipsets or AMD chipsets if I do no use the SLI/Crossfire or dual cards. Does the chipsets matters if I am only using a single card? I have read about the VIA and SIS chipsets. Will it affect the overall performance of the single graphic card if I use the VIA or SIS chipsets?
Confused.
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If you not running Crossfire or SLI you can run a single card on any of them, Nvidia,ATI/AMD,VIA,SIS or Intel
In my region the market currently carries mainly asus, gigabyte, intel and msi motherboard only. Which brand should I choose from?
I use alot of Asus and Gigabytes, had some problems with MSI boards in the past, havent used them in awhile. Intel, if your going with a Intel processor there pretty good boards.
Just being out of curiosity, how many computer have you built to date?
I dont have any idea, been building them since about 1996.
I am getting the asus en8800gtx/hdtp/768m graphic card(http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=2&l2=6&l3=442&l4=0&model=1454&modelmenu=1) along to go with the asus p5s-mx se motherboard(http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=502) which uses the SIS chipset. Anything to add on for my selection before I check out the 2 asus products on a local store tomorrow?
Well if you can I would go with a Nvidia or Intel chipset instead of SIS
But I though in your earlier post had mentioned that it would be alright to go with any chipsets if only a single card is used? My concern is that won't it be a waste if I do not ues the chipsets fuctions?
But I thought in your earlier post had mentioned that it would be alright to go with any chipsets if only a single card is used? My concern is that won't it be a waste if I do not ues the chipsets fuctions?
Oh its not that, Nvidia and Intel just make better chipsets than SIS. SIS is kinda at the bottom of the chipset ranks, but a SIS chipset will work.
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Are there any asus motherboard with Nvidia chipsets but with no SLI fuctions? Can post the asus link for me. Thank you.
You can run a single card on a SLI board too, nice to have the extra slot incase you deside to go SLI later
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&Subcategory=280&description=&Ntk=&srchInDesc=
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&Subcategory=280&description=&Ntk=&srchInDesc=
Sorry I am not trying to be difficult. But I really only want a motherboard with any chipset from any vendor with only 1 pcie x16 slot as I use 2 graphic cards. I have found another asus motherboard with a better chipset vendor: ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 chipset.(http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=179&l4=0&model=466&modelmenu=2)
This is the one that suits my needs. But will there be an issue for use with the asus en8800gtx graphic card since ati and nvidia are different brands?
This is the one that suits my needs. But will there be an issue for use with the asus en8800gtx graphic card since ati and nvidia are different brands?
EDIT: As I do NOT use 2 graphic cards.
8800GTS will run fine on that board, it has onboard video too.
hermeslyre
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You are always using the chipset, it's the way the CPU communicates with the rest of the computer. Other than that I don't know which chipset would be best, but strangleholds got a firm knowledge of PC's so i'd trust his advice. 
Edit: I don't know how i missed all the post above mine, I must be blind.
Edit: I don't know how i missed all the post above mine, I must be blind.
You are always using the chipset, it's the way the CPU communicates with the rest of the computer. Other than that I don't know which chipset would be best, but strangleholds got a firm knowledge of PC's so i'd trust his advice.
Edit: I don't know how i missed all the post above mine, I must be blind.
By the way, what do the chipsets do? Do they help to accelerate the video card or help improve the overall system performance in anyway? Based on what I have read, it seems like it is more for cpu essential as a cpu would not even operate without chipsets. Last but not least is the northbridge chipset used for SLI/Crossfire where the southbridge is used for communicating with the cpu?
hermeslyre
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There use to be such a thing as a MCC, or memory controller chip. It was in charge of addressing the RAM and delivering the information to the CPU. This job is now that of the northbridge, which is also known as the memory controller hub. The northbridge is also tasked with communications between the AGP slot and the CPU.
The Southbridge is tied to the CPU through the northbridge. It relays information to and from the CPU concerning the PCI slots, IDE controller, sound interface, etc.
They are crucial to the working of any PC. They don't improve anything, they are simply there to be communication lanes.
The Southbridge is tied to the CPU through the northbridge. It relays information to and from the CPU concerning the PCI slots, IDE controller, sound interface, etc.
They are crucial to the working of any PC. They don't improve anything, they are simply there to be communication lanes.