Chipsets
*** see the Intel Chipsets Comparison Charts
The chipset is the entire set of chips and the related architecture of the motherboard, not including the CPU. If your CPU is the engine of a car, then the chipset, is everything else (brakes, transmission, exhaust, etc.).
| Memory Interface | |
| EDO | Extended DataOut or Hyperpage Mode of Asynchronous DRAM |
| FPM | Fast Page Mode (memory without Column Address Setup Time) |
| SDR | Single Data Rate |
| DDR | Double Data Rate |
| SDRAM | Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| RDRAM | Direct Rambus Random Access Memory |
| PC100 | Clock is max. 100MHz x 1 x 8 Byte equals to max. 0.8 GByte/s data throughput, short latencies |
| PC133 | Clock is max. 133MHz x 1 x 8 byte equals to max. 1.1 GByte/s data throughput, short latencies |
| PC266 | Clock is max. 133MHz x 2 x 8 byte equals to max. 2.2 GByte/s data throughput, short latencies |
| PC600 | Clock is max. 266MHz x 2 x 2 byte equals to max. 1.1 GByte/s data throughput, long latencies |
| PC700 | Clock is max. 356MHz x 2 x 2 byte equals to max. 1.4 GByte/s data throughput, long latencies |
| PC800 | Clock is max. 400MHz x 2 x 2 byte equals to max. 1.6 GByte/s data throughput, long latencies |
| AGP Bandwidth | |
| n/a | in this case only PCI slots (132 MByte/s) are supported |
| AGP 1X | dedicated graphics card bus with a max. transfer rate of 266MByte/s |
| AGP 2X | dedicated graphics card bus with a max. transfer rate of 528MByte/s |
| AGP 4X | dedicated graphics card bus with a max. transfer rate of 1GByte/s |
| IDE (ATA) Interface | |
| UDMA66 | max. HDD transfer rate of 66.6MByte/s using bus mastering (minimizes CPU utilisation) |
| UDMA33 | max. HDD transfer rate of 33.3MByte/s using bus mastering (minimizes CPU utilisation) |
| PIO4 | max. HDD transfer rate of 16.6MByte/s not using bus mastering (leads to strong CPU utilisation) |