Table 3.7. P6 Processor Chipsets Using North Bridge/South Bridge Architecture

Feature

440FX

440LX

440BX

440GX

450NX

Codename

Natoma

None

None

None

None

Date introduced

May 1996

Aug. 1997

April 1998

June 1998

June 1998

Part numbers

82441FX, 82442FX

82443LX

82443BX

82443GX

82451NX, 82452NX, 82453NX, 82454NX

Bus speed

66MHz

66MHz

66/100MHz

100MHz

100MHz

Supported processors

PII

PII

PII/III [1]

PII/III, Xeon

PII/III, Xeon

Maximum Number of CPUs supported

Two

Two

Two

Two

Four

Memory types supported

FPM/EDO/BEDO

FPM/EDO/SDRAM

SDRAM

SDRAM

FPM/EDO

Parity/ECC

Both

Both

Both

Both

Both

Maximum memory

1GB

1GB EDO/512MB SDRAM

1GB

2GB

8GB

Memory banks

4

4

4

4

4

PCI version

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

2.1

AGP support

No

AGP 2x

AGP 2x

AGP 2x

No

South Bridge

82371SB (PIIX3)

82371AB (PIIX4)

82371EB (PIIX4E)

82371EB (PIIX4E)

82371EB (PIIX4E)