Explaining Motherboard Chipsets

Motherboard chipsets explained, including why chipsets are needed and what they do, legacy Northbridge / Southbridge chipsets, and modern platform controller hubs. Plus information on current and recent Intel and AMD chipsets and their processor compatibilities. My previous video “Explaining PCIe cards” is here: And the web page where Intel describes a chipset is here: If you enjoy this video you may also be interested in these earlier ExplainingComputers episodes: “Explaining Intel & AMD CPUs”: “How do CPUs Work?”: and “The CPU Revolution”: More videos on computing and related topics can be found at You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: