Pentium 4/Pentium D/Pentium XE chipsets All chipsets listed in the table below: • Do not support SMP • Support (-R and -DH) variants for South Bridges • Products with PCI Express are Revision 1.0a [*] Remapping of PCIE/APIC memory ranges not supported, some physical memory might not be accessible (e.g. limited to 3.5 GB or similar). [1] Some later revisions of motherboards based on 945P,945G and 945PL chipset usually supports some Core 2 processors (with later BIOSes). Core 2 Quad is not supported. Only Core 2 Duo, Pentium Dual-Core, and Core2 based Celerons. Summary: • 915P (Grantsdale) • Supports Pentium 4 on an 800 MT/s bus. Uses DDR memory up to 400 MHz, or DDR2 at 533 MHz. Replaces AGP and CSA with PCI Express, and also supports "
Matrix RAID", a RAID mode designed to allow the usage of RAID levels 0 and 1 simultaneously with two hard drives. (Normally RAID1+0 would have required four hard drives) • Sub-versions: • 915PL – Cut-down version of 915P with no support for DDR2 and only supporting 2 GB of memory. • 915G (Grantsdale-G) • 915P with an integrated GMA 900. This core contains Pixel Shader version 2.0 only, it does not contain Vertex Shaders nor does it feature Transform & Lighting (T&L) capabilities and therefore is not Direct X 8.1 or 9.0 compliant. • Sub-versions: • 915GL – Same feature reductions as 915PL, but supports 4 GB of memory. No support for external graphics cards. • 915GV – Same as 915G, but has no way of adding an external graphics card. • 910GL – No support for external graphics cards or 800 MT/s bus. • 925X (Alderwood) • Higher end version of 915. Supports another PAT-like mode and ECC memory, and exclusively uses DDR-II RAM. • Sub-versions: • 925XE – Supports a 1066 MT/s bus. • 945P (Lakeport) • Update on 915P, with support for Serial ATA II, RAID mode 5, an improved memory controller with support for DDR-II at 667 MHz and additional PCI Express lanes. Support for DDR-I is dropped. Formal dual-core support was added to this chipset. • Sub-versions: • 945PL – No support for 1066 MT/s bus, only supports 2 GB of memory. • 945G (Lakeport-G) • A version of the 945P that has a GMA 950 integrated, supports a 1066 MT/s bus. • Sub-versions: • 945GC – Same feature reductions as 945PL but with an integrated
GMA 950. • 945GZ – Same as 945GC but only supports DDR2 memory at 400/533 MT/s. No support for external graphics cards (some boards, like Asus P5GZ-MX, support through ICH7 on PCIe ×16 @4 lanes mode). • 955X (Lakeport) • Update for 925X, with additional features of "Lakeport" (e.g., PAT features and ECC memory), and uses DDR2.
Pentium M/Celeron M mobile chipsets • Products with PCI Express are Revision 1.0a
Core/Core 2 mobile chipsets • Products with PCI Express are Revision 1.1
Core 2 chipsets All Core 2 chipsets support the Pentium Dual-Core and Celeron processors based on the Core architecture. Support for all
NetBurst based processors was officially dropped starting with the Bearlake chipset family. However, some motherboards still support the older processors. • Lakeport supports PCI Express 1.0a • Broadwater and Glenwood supports PCI Express 1.1 [*] Remapping of PCIE/APIC memory ranges not supported, • G41 (EaglelakeG) • Update of G31 with a GMA X4500 integrated graphics core and DDR3 800/1066 support. • P45 (Eaglelake) • Update of P35, with PCIe 2.0 support, Hardware Virtualization, Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) and support for ATI Crossfire (x8+x8). • Sub-versions: • P43 – P45 without Crossfire support. • G45 (EaglelakeG) • A version of P45 that has a GMA X4500HD integrated graphics core and lacks Crossfire support. • Sub-versions: • G43 – Same feature reductions as P43, but with a GMA X4500 integrated graphics core. • Q45 (EaglelakeQ) • Expected G43 intended for Intel's vPro office computing brand. Also supports Hardware Virtualization Technology and Intel Trusted Platform Module 1.2 feature. • Sub-versions: • Q43 – Q45 without vPro support. Also lacks Intel Trusted Platform Module 1.2 support. • B43 – Q43 with an ICH10D South Bridge. [1] The 975X chipset supports only ×16 PCI Express (electrically) in the top slot when the slot below it is unpopulated. Otherwise it and the lower slot (both attached to the Memory Controller Hub) operate at ×8 electrically. [2] Only later revisions of the 975X chipset boards support Core 2 processors. See MSI 975X Platinum (MS-7246) rev 1.0 (first release), and MSI 975X Platinum Powerup revision (MS-7246) rev 2.1 (released autumn 2006) as example. source: https://web.archive.org/web/20210515170458/http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/mainboard/msi-975x-platinum-powerup-edition-i975x.html Officially 975X supports a maximum of 1066 MT/s FSB. Unofficially, third-party motherboards (Asus, Gigabyte) support certain 1333FSB 45 nm Core2 processors, usually with later BIOS updates. As for Celeron and Celeron D support, some boards and revisions support it, some not. (see upper example, MSI Powerup Edition has reintroduced back Celeron support, probably due to later released Core2-based Celerons, which were often more powerful than higher clocked Netburst Pentiums 4. [3] The 975X chipset technical specification shows only DDR2-533/667 memory support. Actual implementations of 975X do support DDR2 800. [4] VT-d is inherently supported on these chipsets, but may not be enabled by individual OEMs.
Always read the motherboard manual and check for BIOS updates. X38/X48 VT-d support is limited to certain Intel, Supermicro, DFI (LanParty) and Tyan boards. VT-d is broken or non existent on some boards until the BIOS is updated. Note that VT-d is a chipset Memory Controller Hub technology, not a processor feature, but this is complicated by later processor generations (Core i3/i5/i7) moving the MCH from the motherboard to the processor package, making only certain I series CPUs support VT-d.
Core 2 mobile chipsets • 1 Unofficially this chipset support 5 GB. • 2 Officially only 4 GB is supported. Unofficially many laptops with this chipset support 8 GB. • 3 Low power mode, HD playback mode and Full performance mode respectively.
Southbridge 9xx and 3/4 Series chipsets ==5/6/7/8/9 Series chipsets==