Chipset architecture question

[oldmanbabe]

Does the architecture of a processor limit what can and cannot be placed into your computer or does it only refer to the manufacturing process?

[Stuff_]

Your question is not very clear. I don't know what "what can and cannot be placed into your computer" means. 

[79wjd]

The architecture refers to the design of the chip circuitry, but doesn't affect what can be run on the computer (well...I guess it kind of does...but not really). 

 

Any program designed for the x86 ISA can run on any x86 CPU (which is pretty much all consumer cpus excluding those in phones/tablets). And if you're referring to the hardware side of things, than components just have to match (but the architecture isn't the determining factor, although different cpu sockets usually have different architectures)

 

I would suggest asking a more clear/precise question (specifically what you're curious about) since the question is a bit vague. 

[Swndlr]

Well based upon the socket compatibility of your CPU, lets say like socket 1150, it will limit what motherboards you can use it with, but yeh, youre question is rather vague.

[salecar3]

mobo chipset is respocible for multi gpu config rest is handeld by cpu,if 64bit cpu it can do 64bit os wich means over 4gb of ram(most desktop cpus from 9 years ago was 64 bit and all modern are 64bit 

[oldmanbabe]

Your question is not very clear. I don't know what "what can and cannot be placed into your computer" means. 

components placed into your computer such as raid cards, graphics cards, ethernet cards, etc...

[79wjd]

components placed into your computer such as raid cards, graphics cards, ethernet cards, etc...

All of those will work fine regardless of the cpu architecture. The only thing to keep in mind is that the CPU and motherboard have matching sockets (and that the RAM matches whatever the board accepts -- DDR3/DDR4 -- only Haswell-E/X99 uses DDR4 right now). 

[oldmanbabe]

thank you!

[Stuff_]

So you mean interfaces as well? A CPU definitely has an affect on which interfaces are compatible.

There's a lot to it.