North- and Southbridges AMD Chipset logo, in use from around 2000 till 2011 Northbridges AMD-xxx ModelĪMD licensed VIA Technologies' Apollo VP2/97 and/or other country/region.This is an overview of chipsets sold under the AMD brand, manufactured before May 2004 by the company itself, before the adoption of open platform approach as well as chipsets manufactured by ATI Technologies after October 2006 as the completion of the ATI acquisition. Irongate chipset family early steppings had issues with AGP 2× drivers often limited support to AGP 1× later fixed with "super bypass" memory access adjustment. Most initial boards shipped without USB headers due to a fault with the integrated USB controller. Manufacturers included PCI USB cards to cover this shortcoming. A later refresh of the chipset had the USB problem remedied. See Comparison of ATI Chipsets for the comparison of chipsets sold under the ATI brand for AMD processors, before AMD's acquisition of ATI.ĭirectX 10, UVD+, HDMI/ HDCP, DisplayPort/DPCP, Side-port memory, Ī-Link Express and A-Link Express II are essentially PCIe 1.1 x4 lanes. Computer keeps restarting automatically frequently Answer: In order to remove automatic reboot computer problems, following steps should be applied which are given below: Update system driver with the latest version using third-party Driver Updaters programs which can easily update system drivers automatically. Support for AMD Quad FX platform ( FASN8),ĭual socket enthusiast platform with NUMA,Ī-Link Express III is essentially PCIe 2.0 x4 lanes. All models support eSATA implementations of available SATA channels.įor AMD APU models from 2011 until 2016.Southbridges AMD-xxx Modelġ Parallel ATA, also known as Enhanced IDE supports up to 2 devices per channel. AMD is marketing their chipsets as Fusion Controller Hubs (FCH), implementing it across their product range in 2017 alongside the release of the Zen architecture. Before then, only APUs used FCHs, while their other CPUs still used a northbridge and southbridge. The Fusion Controller Hubs are similar in function to Intel's Platform Controller Hub.