Chapter 4. Motherboards and Buses

Motherboard Form Factors

Processor Sockets/Slots

Chipsets

Intel's Early 386/486 Chipsets

Fifth-Generation (P5 Pentium Class) Chipsets

Sixth-Generation (P6 Pentium Pro/II/III Class) Chipsets

Seventh-Generation (Pentium 4) Chipsets

Third-Party Pentium 4 Chipsets

AMD Athlon/Athlon XP/Duron Chipsets

Intel Workstation Chipsets for Pentium 4 and Xeon

AMD Athlon 64 and Sempron Chipsets

Super I/O Chips

Motherboard Connectors

System Bus Types, Functions, and Features

Types of I/O Buses

System Resources

Resolving Resource Conflicts

Motherboard Selection Criteria (Knowing What to Look For)