CHIPSET
A chipset is a group of integrated circuits, or chips, that are designed to work together, and are usually marketed as a single product.
Computers
In computing, the term chipset
- refer to a set of specialized chips on a computer's motherboard or an expansion card.
In personal computers based on Intel Pentium-class microprocessors,
- the term often refers to a specific pair of chips on the motherboard: the northbridge and the southbridge.
The northbridge links the CPU to very high-speed devices, especially main memory and graphics controllers, and the southbridge connects to lower-speed peripheral buses (such as PCI or ISA).
In many modern chipsets, the southbridge actually contains some on-chip integrated peripherals, such as Ethernet, USB, and audio devices. A chipset is usually designed to work with a specific family of microprocessors. Because it controls communications between the processor and external devices, the chipset plays a crucial role in determining system performance.
In the 1980s, Chips and Technologies, founded by Dado Banatao (who later founded S3 Graphics), pioneered the manufacturing of chipsets for PC-compatible computers. Computer systems produced since then often share commonly used chipsets, even across widely disparate computing specialties. For example, the NCR 53C9x, a low-cost chipset implementing a SCSI interface to storage devices, could be found in Unix machines such as the MIPS Magnum, embedded devices, and personal computers.
In home computers, game consoles and arcade game hardware of the 1980s and 1990s, the term chipset was used for the custom audio and graphics chips. Examples include the Commodore Amiga's Original Chip Set or SEGA's System 16 chipset
INTEL produces chipsets for its own line of processors:
- i845E/GV: Bus 533 MHz, AGP4x, 2GB DDR PC2700 max
- i850e, i855G (855GME for the Pentium M)
- i865G/P: (4 GiB dual-channel DDR, 533 MHz FSB, AGP8x, serial ATA)
- i875p = optimized i865
- E7205 (for Pentium 4 servers), E7500/E7501/E7505 (for Xeon servers)),
E7520/E7525/E7530 (for dual Xeon servers)
- 910GML/GMZ, 915GM/PM, 945PM/GM
- 945PM/GM + Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG + Intel Core Solo = Centrino
- 945PM/GM + Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG + Intel Core Duo = Centrino Duo
- 910GL, 915P/PL/G/GL/GV, 925X/XE, 945P/PL/G/GZ, 955X (for Pentium D/XE)
- 963Q, 965P/G/Q, 975X (for Intel Core 2 Duo)
- P35 Express (for Intel Core 2 Duo/Quad/Extreme)
- Intel G31 Express (supports DDR2, officially supports up to 1066MHz System Bus)
- Intel G33 Express (supportDDR2 and DDR3)
- Intel G35 Express (supports only DDR2)
Version of Chipset
- 850-tehama : 82850 (MCH)
- 860- colusa : 82860 (MCH)
-845- brookdale :82845 (MCH)
- 850E- tehama :82850E (MCH)
- 845- brookdale :82845E (MCH)
- 850E- tehama :82850E (MCH)
- 845- brookdale: 82845E (MCH)
- 845 GL: 82845(GMCH)
- 845G:82845G (GMCH)
- 845GE: 82845GE(GMCH)
- 845PE: 82845PE (MCH)
- 845GV: 82845GV (GMCH)
- E7500- plumas: E7 500 (MCH)
- E7 501- plumas 533: E7 500 (MCH)
- E7 505- placer: E7 505 (MCH)
- E72 05- granite bay: E72 05 (MCH)
- 875- canterwood: 82875 P (MCH)
- 865G- springdale: 82865G(MCH)
- 865P- springdale: 82865P
- 865PE- springdale: 82865PE
- 848P: 82848P (MCH)
- 865GV: 82865 GV(GMCH)
System Requirements
Basic Requirements
Operating System
- Microsoft Windows XP Home
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional
- Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition or
- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Microsoft Windows Vista DirectX 9.0 or greater
Processor:
- Using a TV tuner card with Hardware encoding (recommended)
Pentium, Celeron or AMD Athlon at 700 Mhz and above
Using a TV tuner card without Hardware encoding:
Pentium 4, Celeron or AMD Athlon at 1.5 Ghz and above
256 MB RAM
Video Card:
- nVidia GeForce 2 and above
ATI Graphics Radeon 7500 and above
Others with 16 MB RAM, 3D Acceleration, DirectX 9.0 compatibility
15 GB Hard Drive
In systems that use 3 or more tuners, recording capacity is limited by the speed of the hard drive and available bandwidth. In order to utilize additional tuners, the system may need additional hard drives that are faster or configured in RAID mode. The more hard drive space, the better the performance will be.
Supported TV tuner card(s)
Television Source
- Analog Cable
- Digital Cable
- Satellite
- Antenna
- Internet Access
Optional Hardware
- PC Remote Control
- External Tuner: PC IR Blasters
- External Tuner: Serial Port Tuning Cable
- DVD Burner
Requirements for digital / HDTV
Intel® Pentium®, AMD Athlon™ processor at 1.7 GHz or higher
- 512 MB Ram
- ATI Radeon 9550 or NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 or Higher
- 40 GB of available hard drive space (this will allow 5 hours of HD Recording)
- BDA Compliant ATSC Capture Card
- Windows XP Service Pack 2
Requirements for clear QAM
Intel® Pentium®, AMD Athlon™ processor at 1.7 GHz or higher
- 512 MB Ram
- ATI Radeon 9550 or NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 or Higher
- 40 GB of available hard drive space (this will allow 5 hours of HD Recording)
- BDA Compliant ATSC Capture Card
- Windows XP Service Pack 2
- 100 MBps or higher home network
- Coax cable source
- Silicon Dust HDHomeRun Dual Network Tuner
PC Remote Controls
- SnapStream Firefly Remote Hauppauge WinTV Remotes/silver and black
- ATI Remote Wonder
- Keyspan Digital Media Remote
- StreamZap PC Remote
-Media Center Edition Remote
- Other remote controls that are compatible with Girder
- Supported TV tuner cards (analog)
With hardware Encoding:
- Adaptec AVC-3610
- Adaptec VideOh! Media Center (USB 2.0)
- Adaptec VideOh! Media Center (PCI)
- Adaptec USB 2.0 Dual TV Tuner
- ADSTech InstantTV Deluxe (USB 2.0)
- ADSTech InstantTV Deluxe (PCI)
- ATI eHome Wonder
-ATI TV Wonder Elite
-ATI Theater 550 chipset based TV tuners, including:
- ATI Theater 550 Pro
- Sapphire Theatrix
others by GeCube, Gigabyte, MSI, Tul, and Yuan
- Other models by ATI or Sapphire may use the same chipset as well
- ATI Theater 650 chipset based TV tuners
- AverMedia m150
- Avermedia m175
- Diamond XtremeTV PVR550 (PCI)
- Diamond XtremeTV PVR600 (USB)
- Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150
- Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150MCE
- Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250
- Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250BTV
- Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350
- Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500MCE
- Hauppauge WinTV-PVR USB2
- Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600
NVIDIA® DualTV MCE tuner
- PixelView PlayTV P7000
- Plextor PX-TV402U / PXM402U
- Prolink Pixelview PlayTV HD
- Yuan MPG-600
- Yuan MPG-843
- Yuan PG-600
Without Hardware Encoding:
External tuners: Serial Port Tuning
- DirecTV (Sony set-top box) serial port tuning
- DirecTV (RCA set-top box) serial port tuning
- Motorola DCT-2000 (with 7.54 or above firmware)
- DVD Burners
- Any multimedia compliant DVD recordable drive
- All popular recordable DVD formats are supported: DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD- R DL,DVD+R DL, DVD-RAM
Sunday, September 23, 2007
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