Specifications

Computer Architecture and Maintenance (G-Scheme-2014)
• The IDE or ATA bus connects the southbridge to the disk drives.
• The AGP bus connects the video card to the memory and the CPU. The speed of
the AGP bus is usually 66 MHz.
• The PCI bus connects PCI slots to the southbridge. On most systems, the speed
of the PCI bus is 33 MHz. Also compatible with PCI is PCI Express, which is
much faster than PCI but is still compatible with current software and operating
systems. PCI Express is likely to replace both PCI and AGP busses.
The faster a computer's bus speed, the faster it will operate -- to a point. A fast bus
speed cannot make up for a slow processor or chipset.
There are two type of chipset architecture
1.Hub Architecture
2.Bridge architecture
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/motherboard4.htm
Q.Describe HUB architecture
Ans.
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