March 2nd, 2006, 12:27 AM
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| HyperTransport clarification
I have a few questions about HyperTransport...
My motherboard supports it but does my processor (Socket A Sempron 2800+)?
If not then what Socket A processors do?
According to AIDA32 my chipset bus type is HyperTransport v1.0 and bus width is 8-bit, shouldnt it be 32-bit?
Also according to AIDA32 I have a frount side bus width of 64-bit (DDR?), isnt Hypertransport supposed to be a replacement for the FSB?
Im sure I have screwed up every question and none of them make sense but please try to bare with me... |
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March 2nd, 2006, 08:17 AM
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Socket A mainboards might have HyperTransport between north and south bridge (NVidia or ALi/ULi chipsets do that), but not on the CPU side of things. |
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March 2nd, 2006, 02:58 PM
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Yes I saw that the Nvidia Nforce2 ultra links the north and south bridges with HT, but what advantages does this have? I have also heard that the agp and pci slots use HT but am not sure if any socket A's do that? |
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March 2nd, 2006, 09:14 PM
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AGP and PCI slots use AGP and PCI.
HyperTransport is an open standard high speed interconnect. So why not use it to link north and south bridge - NVidia and ULi are doing exactly that, even if the host processor uses a different (proprietary) technology. Other chipset makers (Intel, VIA, SiS) all use a proprietary north-south interconnect. |
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March 2nd, 2006, 10:19 PM
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Ok, I see thank you for the help |
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