chipset on a card

[joran]

does anyone know if someone has tried this yet, or if there are any reasons why it wouldnt work?

 

if you would get a old southbridge and make a pcie card for it, wouldnt it just work and function like a plx+sata+usb+nic+audio card?

just an idea, wouldnt know who it would be practical for but could be cool. as far as i know nothing the cpu needs is located on the south bridge, only on the northbridge. 

[WhitetailAni]

I don't think so, but maybe.

I think no because there would need to be a way to convert from north-to-southbridge communication to PCIe.

If that's possible, than probably.

[joran]

6 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

I don't think so, but maybe.

I think no because there would need to be a way to convert from north-to-southbridge communication to PCIe.

If that's possible, than probably.

yea, i made a mistake in my head, i thought that southbridges used pcie to communicate but only newer chipsets use pcie, maby that would be possible but i think it would conflict with the one on the motherboard. also, only amd would work bc intel uses a different bus to the chipset

[mariushm]

Not a chipset, but you can do something similar.

 

For example, get a pci-e x4 switch chip that converts the pci-e x4 into 4 pci-e x1 lanes.

Then connect

1. pci-e x1 audio chip/ sound card

2. pci-e x1 usb 3.0 2 port 5gbps controller , or 1 sub 3.1gen2 (10g) controller

3. pci-e x1 network controller (1gbps realtek 8111h or 2.g gbps realtek 8125 or whatever)

4. pci-e x1 sata controller (up to 6 ports)

 

The problem is the cost .. the bridge chip alone costs 5-10$ and if everything else costs 2-3$ each (chip + parts required), you're looking at a card that costs around 15-20$ in components, and that means it would retail at around 30-40$ (markup for manufacturer, cost of circuit board, shipping, markup of retailer)

 

Now you have the problem of people not wanting to buy such a card for 40-50$, and too low of a market for it..

 

 

 

[joran]

5 hours ago, mariushm said:

Not a chipset, but you can do something similar.

 

For example, get a pci-e x4 switch chip that converts the pci-e x4 into 4 pci-e x1 lanes.

Then connect

1. pci-e x1 audio chip/ sound card

2. pci-e x1 usb 3.0 2 port 5gbps controller , or 1 sub 3.1gen2 (10g) controller

3. pci-e x1 network controller (1gbps realtek 8111h or 2.g gbps realtek 8125 or whatever)

4. pci-e x1 sata controller (up to 6 ports)

 

The problem is the cost .. the bridge chip alone costs 5-10$ and if everything else costs 2-3$ each (chip + parts required), you're looking at a card that costs around 15-20$ in components, and that means it would retail at around 30-40$ (markup for manufacturer, cost of circuit board, shipping, markup of retailer)

 

Now you have the problem of people not wanting to buy such a card for 40-50$, and too low of a market for it..

 

 

 

i know about that, i was actually going to do that but i thought it would be cool to use a chipset. thanks for the help tho.