What is South Bridge and North Bridge in Motherboard.

What is North Bridge ?

  1.)    Northbridge is located in the northern section of the motherboard.

   2.)    It is also known as the host bridge.

   3.)  It is directly connected to the CPU, RAM, AGP, and PCI Express slots. If it is required for the CPU to communicate with AGP or PCI express slots etc.

   4.)   The communication occurs via the northbridge. Usually, northbridge operates at a faster speed as it connects to high-speed components in the computer.

   What is South Bridge ?

1.) Southbridge is located in the southern section of the

 motherboard.

2.)   It connects the components such as PCI bus slots, BIOS, SATA  and IDE connectors and USB ports.

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