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Chipset Chips
You will in most cases see between two and four chips labeled with the name of the company that supplied the chipset for your motherboard. For example, the Intel Triton II "HX" Pentium chipset comprises two chips: the Intel 82439HX, and the Intel 82371AB. A full discussion of the chipset is in this section. The chipset normally controls data flow to and from the processor, memory and cache, as well as the system buses.
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