Explaining Motherboard Chipsets 

I am sure we all knew it would only make sense as PCIe. I'm not a RU-vid creator, but maybe do one of those text overlays? Thank you for the video. Informative as always.

There's another spot where the graphic says something like " 5 x PCIe" that I couldn't figure out, but eventually decided must be inverted. But no worries, the whole most excellently explains the chipset system, and I had a moment of enlightenment about how it is that performance has so radically increased in recent systems.

Was just about to mention this but good catch. Great video yet again, thank you.

Great video with your perfectly clear explanations, as always. Thanks Chris for providing great content!

@@mlong5666 Thanks Mike.

This guy is saying good things but he talks a little like a professor in class that makes you feel you want to sleep or talk to the person next to you.

@@SIPEROTH Not if you are curious and truly interested in the content. I was fully engaged the whole video but I am not saying you should be. My Dad use to say I had selective attention and memory. Yup, I sure did, and I still do now. I fall asleep during many conversations!

Exactly, I read the book and wasn't sure what it was talking about until I watched this video.

Or more importantly with AMD, that the motherboard BIOS it ships with supports your CPU out of the box. If not then you'll have to use a cheaper CPU to boot it, do the BIOS update and then fit your intended CPU.

And check the right memory for your MoBo.

@@6581punk AMD (at least used to) will send you a chip for free to do this very thing. Thought I might have had to do it for my last build, but luckily it just worked.

@@NH-mc7xs It could also be the case, that your motherboard will support a BIOS upgrade without inserting a cpu. Vandors like Gigabyte call this feature "q flash plus" .

I’m struggling with a Blank Lenovo T440 Factory with windows 8pro. It came with no OS. I’ve been trying to USB boot Win10, with no success due to the bios not enabling the device to run on in the Boot menu in BIOS. I just need a no strong machine for Archiving Databases, and reliability for downloading onto External Storage devices. This is not easily done with just an IPhone as alternate device. What am I missing here?

Well, I have started building and repairing computers shortly after turning 12, during Christmas holidays that year. At age 16 I got my first network going, Novell NetWare 3.12 back then. At age 18 I won the contract to build my Highschools computer network (and learned not to listen to customers cabling choices due to aesthetics, it worked but only at 10Mbps and poorly instead of 100Mbps properly like the rest of the network where my choice was the law). So, my advice is, get him to work part time on a small to medium computer shop where they let him work hands on AND make sure to force him to finish highschool and make sure to have him on a related course (I ended in Electronics, Microelectronics, Electricity, Communications and Industrial Automation technical course due to the Ministry of Education budget cuts removing the course I applied to, Computing and Programming, but I have to say that the electronics background really helped me more than I ever thought, though I only noticed or took advantage of much latter, which is partly why I never went to university and focused on working and making money, make sure he has a course he can work hands on and use straight away)

And give him programming books regarding C, C++ and also provide him with books on Algorithms. Have him make an analogue clock (will need trigonometry and all of it, me deciding I had to do one resulted in my Maths Trigonometry test having my highest grade ever without studying for the test, well what you'd call study that is, using trig's as in depth as that forced me to really did the job way better than any conventional studying. Same thing for statistics, I wanted to make a. Installation program, so I needed a progress bar and we didn't have objects doing everything for you back then meaning not only I had to draw the progress bar I had to handle the maths, result I derived the formula to calculate percentages with a variable number of elements without ever studying statistics which were actually the first thing on the menu on my next year of maths. During the first week I found myself looking at the board and thinking, shit I know that formula... It was the same I had come to when doing my stuff hehehe. My only regret was not combining programming and my school studies more often, specifically anything involving mathematics and physics. Give the kid some legs with the programming books, then challenge him with school stuff being implemented on software by him. He'll be studying and learning willingly and happily without even noticing! He won't need to cram ANY topic he does a program for using the formulas and knowledge gathered from school lessons. He will know it by heart when the time comes to have an exam.

Show the young man some videos from Asianometry channel, involving semiconductor manufacturing stuff (ASML, Zeiss, ...). Maybe it's a bit early for that, but who knows?

just takes time and experience

Almost the same situation as I were in. Built my first in '03/'04, my 2nd in '20. I went with AMD. Looking at building my first server(NAS), and trying to catch up on Intel's Core series CPU and mobo naming scheme 🤯. Having a bit of hard time trying to figure out which lake-series fit which socket and chipset - in hopes finding a cheap solution to my needs.

Many thanks.

@@ExplainingComputers Do you make these 3D animations yourself? Just wondering if you're modelling these components yourself, or maybe you can get models of these things online? Because it's actually quite detailed with all the pins and holes, and even some little resistors (?) on the RAM and NVMe. Nice. Also, I like the reflections. Especially on the motherboard itself, where you can see, from the reflections, that it's not a flat surface but has loads of tiny dimples on it.

@@klaxoncow I do indeed make the animations myself, and here its all geometry (rather than some of the detail being in texture maps). So the PCIe slots and RAM slots contain a lot of polygons! It is possible to purchase stock 3D models online, and I have done so in the past for some components. But I've never been happy with the quality of the modelling when it comes to PC parts, so everything in this video (and indeed in the EC title sequence) has been modelled myself.

@@ExplainingComputers I'm suitably impressed, then. Granted, it's all geometric shapes, when it comes to these connectors. But you do have an attention to detail there - actually modelling it properly, with geometry, not just some texture map to "fake" where the holes should be - that I do appreciate. It's also a nice and crisp render too. Do you use Blender or something else?

@@klaxoncow Everything is modelled and rendered in LightWave 3D. If starting out today I would choose Blender. But it did not exist when I started using LightWave in the early 1990s.

Good luck with your course. :)

Greetings on another Sunday. :)

It’s part of my Sunday morning ritual. ☕️ 🥯 & EC 😊

Thanks for your kind feedback, most appreciated. :)

Thanks. :)

Yes, you are correct. A "real" explaining computers video this week! :)

Excellent!

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How the weeks fly by these days! :) Stay safe.

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Oh man. It sure has!

Greetings Chris. :)

. . . Cordially request a follow-on video one day on the topic of laptop chipsets and in particular, which of their principal design/engineering/commercial considerations have driven the trend toward ossified, sword-in-the-stone cpus and ram as the default build in this cherished format. Warmly yours.

Thanks for watching. :)