What is a Chipset as Fast As Possible

What is a chipset and how has its function changed over time?
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[@MrHD71]

Fast as possible: CPU Cache

[@primusloy]

i have answered it above to aslan khalilov

[@dhendry71]

primus loy but we want to see linus say because he is awesome

[@migszxc]

he has an "as fast as possible" video on it called "different kinds of memory as fast as possible"

[@xHippoCrit]

It's kind of like RAM, but closer to the CPU and faster, meaning it has to call from RAM and the HDD/Storage less.

[@AlzainAli]

Scrap pad for the CPU calculations. As speeds increase the size of cache increases

[@duviday]

wow. First time i've ever seen a professional actually listen to a consumer and then not just reply, but produce the product asked this quickly. Only saw the questions for chipset fast as possible in the last couple ones. Top work, linus!

[@techquickie]

duviday I still read most of the comments on my videos. It's not always feasible to do every topic that gets suggested for a variety of reasons, but we do consider them.

[@ZFanz]

@@techquickie cool

[@loganatori6117]

​@@techquickieI wonder if this still holds up these days

[@jerradwillard1664]

I am loving these as fast as possible videos I am currently studying for my comp tia A+ cert (self study) and as I read the chapters I can also watch a one of these videos on the topic and sometimes you have things that are related more to real world (as things I will see as a tech) that aren't what I need to pass the test and what I love about that is I am studying what I need to pass the test while simultaneously prepping for the real world keep them coming bro

[@dalewilson908]

Did you pass your test ?

[@big_meaty_thighs2519]

Did you graduate yet?

[@TDPEquinox]

southbridge and northbridge as fast as possible.

[@techquickie]

TDPEquinox you just watched it

[@neromana2]

Techquickie haahahahhaahah

[@TDPEquinox]

Techquickie you went over what they are briefly. I want to know what task each one takes care of, and how it works together, in a bit more depth than what was said here.

[@JuanRemes]

TDPEquinox if i wanted someone to explain me what and how the northbridge and southbridge works, i would not want them to explain it to me "as fast as possible" but as slow as possible

[@dgurevich1]

these are now obsolete. didn't you pay attention?

[@mizhpai2189]

TBH techquickie have help me a lot in many ways such as explaining PC parts, their uses and many more. I am very grateful that techquickie is here to help the world explaining things and making a better understading toward PC. Thank you linus!!

[@HectorMadrigal]

Finally! I've been asking for this one for months.

[@thedemonlord8685]

@gadiel dadap the socket is the physical connection between the motherboard and CPU. And the chipset is what linus was just talking about

[@tanakahiroakijp]

As I was looking into the prerequisites for Optane Memory that I got at the auction, I found a list of chipset compatibility, and I suddenly thought. What is "chipset"? So I searched on youtube and watched this video. The content is 8 years old but very easy to understand.

[@Archangel125]

Those aren't chips Linus, those are crisps.

[@Agentepic25]

Crisps

[@andresjaramillofigueroa3025]

Actually, they're chips. Crisps has no meaning to anyone but 3rd world peasants.

[@marteenyo]

"3rd world peasants" are the ones making you those crisps, Andres Jaramillo.

[@andresjaramillofigueroa3025]

***** That's awesome. Get the peasants to do our dirty work.

[@marteenyo]

Living in a "first-world" country doesn't make you any better than any other person on earth, don't forget that. You probably don't even live in one anyway but you like to pretend you do because it makes you feel better about yourself. Do better.

[@jmsheadquarters]

I'm in I.T and I Love all 3 of your Channels and watch them every time you release a new video and like them

[@tech-daddy]

Very nicely rounded up. Thumbs up!!

[@mrDade9]

THANK YOU! Percent explanation!

[@nephixeon1497]

An idea for another episode maybe you could explain the meaning of electricity measurements such as watts, amps, and volts. Thanks for all the the great episodes!!!

[@Agentepic25]

This channel is so helpful

[@MatthewWright001]

This video needed to be made. Thank you! Solid AMD and Intel comparison.

[@ComputerElectronicTechnology]

Awesome video! Thanks for the info! Now I can see how performance is actually increasing and now I know where my money is going. Thank goodness they are not just "saying performance increases to get your money but in reality components just look different and you pay for newer components so they seem to go faster instantly" but still deteriorate over time.

[@SteveDice21]

String theory as fast as possible

[@YoloMonstaaa]

Yeah, more like my string cheese theory.

[@bhagswag8434]

I'm going to be a sophomore in college in the coming fall. I'm a physics major. I have ardently tried to read up materials about these subjects. Quantum states, duality of light, string theory; you name it. Even with my longtime dedication to everything physics, I still struggle grasping the true meanings of these topics. Sure, he can give you analogies and such, but that'll only leave you frustrate because analogies are not the actual reality. The issue is that normal people (non-high-science-people) understand the world in a certain way. Gravity pulls things. Magnets push and pull. Electricity shocks things and charges phones. String theory will throw your understanding out of the window. So much stuff is thrown at you that without some background in quantum mechanics (again, normal people don't know this), you will learn nothing. In conclusion, I'd like to say that if it really bothers you that you don't understand this stuff, learn the basics first. You can't build a Ferrari before knowing how a go-cart works.

[@SteveDice21]

+Bhagswag First: Physics major (I switched to math but anyway) brofist. Second: I know it's not possible to explain string theory in one of these videos, that's the joke.

[@bhagswag8434]

Steve Dice Whoops. Sorry, lol.

[@bibasik7]

The theory of why cats play with strings.

[@incrediblezorro4592]

Excellent explanation

[@sethskinner1897]

thank so much very helpfull

[@engnasser4]

Great info thank you

[@alvzcizzler]

Video ends: 3:30

[@Emerald_dream58]

Thanks! Lol.

[@cameron-pg8gf]

Chipset is used in many different terms but back when ms-dos have everything separate network card, ide controller and many more the chips etc combined a lot of these controllers into one.

[@lemonbirdo1353]

Thanks for enlightening us x3

[@elsanto8505]

You're awesome dude

[@hueyrosayaga]

2:32 I wonder how airflow is with those cards. That seems to be a thermal throttle station instead of an SLI setup.

[@sean7891233]

Wow time really flies ... Lynda is now LinkedIn Learning!

[@shyneguy]

Maybe a techquickie on the difference between DDR3 and DDR4 RAM

[@techquickie]

trioxis13 done!!

[@papathanos8629]

@@techquickie ooga booga give my cpu

[@benjaminjones8782]

Ddr

[@MiMayonGo]

@@techquickie As a man who invented chipset Dado Banatao 🤘😔🤘

[@thedemonlord8685]

@Sufi annoor actually both are correct

[@FTWTitanium]

"Speaking of..." - time to quit video, just kidding :) or not.

[@AppallingScholar]

Yo wtf. I have exactly the same image as my Instagram and whatsapp profile pic

[@jean-claudephilgence8371]

just what i wanted to know, thank you

[@przemek4101]

Actually U- and Y-series CPUs (notebooks) are provided both CPU and PCH as one integrated package what increases performance and decreases power usage and heat emission even more. Beginning with Skylake-U and -Y the Image Signal Processor is integrated which enables image from webcam to be processed by it which again increases performance and decreases power usage and heat emission during using webcam software. With all that improvements U-series based notebooks can be really thin and have quite long battery time and Y-series based notebooks can be completely fan-less constructions.

[@derekbrown5123]

Hey, I actually like the ads. Lynda website sounds dope.

[@aslankhalilov9995]

I'm gonna say it again - "What is CPU cache" AFAP

[@primusloy]

cpu cache are tiny but ultra fast memory modules that store important instruction codes releated to the process you are running like your game or web browser. it acts as a handy tool belt to the cpu reducing the possible lag when compared to fetching instructions from the hard disk. caches are WAY fast and make modern SSD look like a turtle. .

[@CrazyNinjaMike]

primus loy I wouldn't of compared CPU cache to HDDs or SSDs. It's like RAM, but the CPU cache is a smaller, faster memory which stores copies of the data from frequently used RAM locations.

[@primusloy]

yeah...scrap the SSD.. it makes the LATEST RAMs look like turtles

[@TiredFerret]

I'm a CS major, I hope I get this right. Cache in terms of hardware is made from the fastest memory technology we have and is very close to the CPU, making access very quick. Cache is very expensive, so you usually only have a few MB. Cache stores commonly used entries from main memory (your ddr sticks) to increase the speed at which a program executes by shortening memory access times. Accessing from cache is several orders of magnitude faster than accessing from main memory. Since Main memory is magnitudes larger than cache, we obviously can't fit all of MM into cache. There are many methods of caching, but I wont get into them here. There are based on the facts that repeated memory access is spatial (within certain close lines in a program) and temporal (acessed again within close amounts of time). When you try to access memory, the CPU will first look in the cache. If the entry is in cache, we have a cache hit, if not, we have a cache miss and must go access main memory. This means we are wasting time accessing cache AND MM in the case of a miss. In some cases, cache becomes a hinderance because of this, but mostly, the hit rate in our situations makes cache worth the possible misses. There are different levels of cache for certain reasons. The lowest levels are usually for one core only (L1) and are the smallest. Higher levels of cache (L2, L3) are usually larger and are shared among processor cores. Unfortunately, we can have problems with entries among caches within one or more processors being different. This issue is called cache consistency and that's all I'm going to say because it's a huge topic in itself. Okay, I think I covered a lot. Feel free to reply to my post if you have more to say. :-P

[@CrazyNinjaMike]

primus loy hell yea it does! CPU cache operates at about the same speed as the CPU, which is 4-5 times faster than RAM!

[@arunvijay3299]

thanks alot 4 the great information !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

[@idanratinsky8480]

I love Lynda.com!

[@smithclk]

Thanks man!

[@1trucxhondamov589]

GR8 VID! 👍👍👍 THANKS!😃

[@Solruc_]

02:12 he's scratching his balls

[@Vinni-2K]

hahaha

[@freakguitargod]

You would be the one to notice

[@infernoblaze3974]

lmao

[@razalasreficul6902]

And what's wrong with that?

[@lolnjeoglondajmejejplejlis3365]

Ooooh he is scratching his balls! Like every human Woooow

[@tanwarrs]

what should i buy for video editing mac or window where my biggest concern is system crashing

[@ReniWanGenobi]

Hello Linus, I have a serious question here. I've got a Serverboard, the Asus Z9PE-D16 with the Chipset c602. So, on the Intel Page for the specs for c602, there is PCIe limitation of 8 Lanes, but the Serverboard supports about 4 full PCIe x16 Slots. How is this possible? I guess there must be an extension chip, but doesn't it slow down the whole thing? Or how is this extension chip connected to the rest of the board? Can you help anwer that? Thank you!

[@sonalpunchihewa9273]

+techquickie how do you prevent a northbridge from overheating?

[@kanadoots]

Linus! I have more suggestions! WAN, LAN and WLAN. (Most people still don't know what WAN is, really.) Routers, switches and hubs (although routers are in-all ones now a days, maybe you can still do this for sake of knowledge) CPU Gigahertz or maybe CPU vs GPU(parallel processing (why do GPUs have lower Hz ratings, but still function like a CPU | how does a cpu/gpu work, really? how does the "GHz" relate to performance, traffic analogy, etc..) Oh, and big thanks to LMG for being a swell team and reading comments and taking suggestions from the viewers, like how this video made it!

[@alexandrospanag]

Even though the comment is way too old I hope you learned that CPU stands for central processing unit (the processor ) while the gpu stands for graphical processing unit (the graphic card ) they do 2 completely different things -- it's like comparing your ram with your hard drive even though they have a few commons here & there they do completely different things overall. As an undergraduate 4th year cs student hope my reply helped 😊

[@kanadoots]

​@@alexandrospanag Thanks for clarifying! I did know the difference but I just suggested it as a suggestion for a video topic (like the comment says). Then they did make a video about it :D kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5zcoZR4n69gpsk They also made one for the routers, switches, hubs, etc suggestion: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJSUZ3Z5dqatbbM

[@alexandrospanag]

@@kanadoots Linus is the best when he doesn't make the ugly thumbnail faces 😂😂

[@kanadoots]

@@alexandrospanag that is so true lol

[@Ebiru2387]

What about the naming of chipsets? Is there a formatting that acts as a key? By this i mean by looking at the name if you knew nothing about the chip, you could gather some basic info about it? Or does one need to be familiar with each chipset to understand what it brings to the table?

[@zkid1582]

please do x58 vs z97 mainly in gaming performance

[@Huvada]

Please do one about dataclusters on storage devices.

[@thecapitaltx5038]

good one

[@patrickkilduff5272]

Linus...you should do a video where you benchmark different chipsets on different motherboards to see if there is any advantage to having, say a 990fx chipset vs a 970....

[@Uditha]

Linus ... I am a regular fan of you channel, because of that I see that in many videos you continuously check your phone. Because you are one of the best presenters in KZbin platform that movement of checking phone is disrupting the flow of the video. just an idea. nothing serious. and thank you for the content provided.

[@kamakaziozzie3038]

Is that what Linus has been doing? I was wondering about that too

[@kevenharvey9711]

While the role of the chipset is quite important, the performance difference between chipsets is trivial at best. The biggest difference will be in the features they offer.

[@mbsfaridi]

How much of a performance boost does 4gpus give for rendering?

[@adamjaber3771]

if theoretically i manage to switch the chipset on a mobo to one wich seppurts the same ram speeds and switch the cpu socket to one that matches that chipset will it work?

[@Zargham7133]

Lovely!

[@NovaDragon]

What is "Allocated Unit Size" when reformatting linus?

[@JamieS1992]

said in the video multi graphic cards I'm a noob when it comes to hardware what does having more then 1 do? I know having say a Gforce will work during games a intel 4000 will work for websites and such but having 2 or more say GX 660s what would the point of that be?

[@karthiksatheesh6708]

which is the graphics card on this vid @0:32

[@SweatPants]

Panel/monitors next? TN,IPS,LCD,LED and CRT

[@MCAlexisYT]

Including OLED!

[@fantaseegaming]

so good

[@lukasmickeliunas5438]

Awesome !

[@anime-girlfriend]

my pch sometimes reaches the high 70s in cels. could this cause games online to lag?

[@thedemonlord8685]

@Son Of Krypton there the same. The motherboard makes make the bios not the CPU. So there is no diffrence

[@etop2650]

I have a new (used) mainboard (AM3) and wanted to update the Chipset driver. They are pretty old though. The newest is for Windows 7. Can I still install it even though my OS is Windows 10?

[@DeViLzzz2006]

LOL at the beginning ..... I used to like Zesty Mordant but there isn't enough cheese on them anymore! As for the content this is one of the more enjoyable Tech Quickie videos I have watched. I never knew that things had changed so much.

[@MazeFrame]

North and South Bridge.... problems some never ran into^^

[@TravisMohan]

can you do a video about RAM timings explained

[@thedemonlord8685]

@Denai Brothers hmmm no its from the USA

[@KeyvanKhademRavandi]

a video about MOSFETS, Diodes, capacitors & many many more OR a video about: wattage, voltage, resistance & others. please ;-;

[@fancykat9940]

Wait, if i have a motherboard with a newer chipset than my cpu, will it still work or do i need to get different parts?

[@PpaStrmpf]

One question from newbie. Is it worth buying now X99 over Z87 motherboards for an average PC user and gamer. I mean it's new tech and DDR4 is more expensive over DD3 etc.

[@nilsons28]

You cen make video how to get in linux hard disk drive from windows?

[@HappyTroller0921]

DAT TRANSITION DOE, OOOOOO

[@RichardGetzPhotography]

I'm surprised you didn't mention AMD. Were they not the first ones to move the mem controller to the CPU in modern desktops? I think so.

[@projectjt3149]

so what does AMD's hypertransport have to do with schipsets

[@thesuperrobertlol]

its 2022 and this got on my recommended list lol

[@thedemonlord8685]

@Yamaha Rider J for therorectical 2x better graphic performance.

[@tyrannicpuppy]

So, if the purpose of modern chipsets is to reduce latency as much as possible, and the high-speed stuff is already direct connected to the CPU for this reason, why the chipset at all? Why not hardwire all devices direct to the CPU? I am legitimately curious.

[@louerleseigneur4532]

Awesome

[@GoldenKingStudio]

In the integrated Skylake processors, the PHC has been integrated directly into the processor. I am not sure why it still exists in the non-integrated processors though. It is probably a business thing to keep Intel motherboards only compatible with Intel processors.

[@BransTech]

Finally! An answer!

[@benschneider3413]

Why is the GPU(PCIe)on south bridge? It would profit so much from being connected to the north bride.

[@varunm7011]

it seems mantle performs better than direct x ... got to know form maximum PC ... article so what are they ... (direct x and mantle) ... which one is better and worth buying ..

[@XLucifersX]

Guys for a modern gamer that plays a variet of games and wants to maintain 60 FPS on most of it ( with high end components of course ) , and wants a good motherboard that will last him for some good many years ( 3 + ) , and its 2015 of course, should i go with Z97 chipset or x99 ? and which brands are good for motherboards ? MSI / Gigabyte / Asus ? , thanks

[@AshleyTyagi]

I still own one of those traditional chipsets :)

[@CelmorSmith]

2:23 Why do they "game" in a KZbin video (look at the bar at the bottom)?

[@typerightseesight]

Is this what connects the integrated graphics card to the gpu?

[@miiiikku]

Is there connection between chipset and jet set?

[@HammerDogMinecraft]

thanks sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much

[@link1234567blue]

I love a good old procesador

[@Pinkfloyd1173]

Question for you man, how would you update your chipset???? I am a noob so that is why I am asking. Thanks and keep up the good work.

[@pimvandervliet]

You can't, it is soldered on your motherboard, therefor upgrading it means replacing your motherboard.

[@Pinkfloyd1173]

ok thank you so much.

[@dkapbboy]

Damn this videos available in 4k. Never seen that until now. Unfortunately I've only got 1440 but thats cool.

[@WayStedYou]

It will still give you a higher bitrate putting it on 4k

[@lloyd26]

4:15 Is that Linus' new face?

[@PanosGr44]

What is Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) [Sound Cards to AMPS to Speakers]

[@primusloy]

when an analog signal is prepared it is prone to interference termed as "noise" . SNR is the nerd way to measure the loss of signal against the noise. in most cases the higher the SNR, the better

[@primusloy]

***** dude! EMI =ElectroMagnetic Interference..just as i termed... interference..

[@SONOFAZOMBIE2025]

signal = good shit (music) noise = bad shit (hiss and hum) SNR = good shit / bad shit

[@primusloy]

i am gonna explain to you in terms of ADSL broadband signals SNR means signal against noise.... a higher signal against the occurring noise like 35db is good in ADSL..but a clear 6db signal works the same as well... but when you seek SNR in terms of analog AUDIO more is always better. SNR applies to a lot of analog stuff, each used for different purposes hence having different norms ..there is no one for all norm hence saying high SNR is always good isnt wise

[@theelitetaco5873]

Someone's gonna watch this in ten years and be like "Ha, he called x99 the latest and greatest"

[@dirikudanalsoyou]

yes

[@mattsmith4063]

cache please

[@thedemonlord8685]

@Andrew Agustin duh... Get an Intel i5

[@aksshaysharma96]

linus are you an IT engineer?

[@yumri4]

what ever happened to QPI instead of DMI ?

[@iwi2ench745]

One day the chipset will be the size of a watch like it once was a mega server room for computers back in the 80s to now a desktop.

[@frankman2]

I wish I knew what he's talking about. Sounds fascinating.

[@hoverzap7114]

I loved this part 1:15

[@Pomomomo]

pretty cool my teacher used this vid for learning this in class

[@Slenderman63323]

what class are you in? I want to go to it.