Burgos, Ric Charles R.

September
30, 2020
CPE 501 CSAL01E

Q2 PART 2 PRELIM
Total Points: 10 pts
A. Explain briefly the interconnection of northgate and southgate chipsets, and the
processor.
The Northbridge chipset is an association between the Southbridge and the
processor. It additionally controls illustrations and RAM to the processor. The
Northbridge can be considered as the fastest way between the CPU and either the
video card or the system RAM. The Southbridge communicates with all the slow
hardware, the IDE, USB, the card bus internet.
The Southbridge can usually be distinguished from the Northbridge by not being
directly connected to the CPU. Rather, the Northbridge ties the Southbridge to the CPU.
The Northbridge and Southbridge refer to the data channels to the CPU. The
memory goes to the CPU using the Northbridge. And the mouse, keyboard, CD ROM,
HDD, ext data flows to the CPU using the Southbridge. The Northbridge and the
Southbridge are known as the chipset on the motherboard. These sets of chips
collectively control the memory cache, external bus, and some peripherals.

B. Compare RAM and cache. Use the table below.

RAM CACHE
1. Read/Write rate of
Read/Write rate of cache
RAM is slower than
memory is quicker than RAM.
Cache Memory.
2. RAM is limited
Cache Memory is more
expensive than Cache
valuable than RAM.
Memory.
3. RAM is used to store Cache Memory is used to
less redundant data. save more frequent data.
4. CPU reads RAM after
CPU reads Cache Memory
expressing Cache
before holding RAM.
Memory.
5. RAM is commonly Internal and external both can
internal. be in Cache memory.