First of all we talk a little about its definition and motherboards funcionanmiento before seeing a bit on the plate using the new PS3. Now we understand Motherboards:
A card mother is the central or primary circuit board of a computer system or other complex electronic system. A typical computer with the microprocessor, main memory, and other basic components on the motherboard. Other components of the computer such as external storage, control circuits for video and sound, and peripheral devices are attached to the motherboard via connectors or cables of any kind. This is also known as the main board. The motherboard is one of the most important components of a computer, it depends on other components because it serves as the basis for the interconnection of all these. This fact supports the reliability and speed the quality system of the plate. Physically, it is a "wafer" of synthetic material, on which there is an electronic circuit that connects different elements that are anchored on it.
A card mother is the central or primary circuit board of a computer system or other complex electronic system. A typical computer with the microprocessor, main memory, and other basic components on the motherboard. Other components of the computer such as external storage, control circuits for video and sound, and peripheral devices are attached to the motherboard via connectors or cables of any kind. This is also known as the main board. The motherboard is one of the most important components of a computer, it depends on other components because it serves as the basis for the interconnection of all these. This fact supports the reliability and speed the quality system of the plate. Physically, it is a "wafer" of synthetic material, on which there is an electronic circuit that connects different elements that are anchored on it.
Like any computer system, all the basic circuitry and components required for a PC to operate is mounted either directly on the motherboard or an expansion card plugged into an expansion slot motherboard. The slots or grooves, in English are each property by having the motherboard on which are inserted cards.
The most common are:
- PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect "Peripheral Component Interconnect" is a computer bus standard for connecting devices to the motherboard. It is very common in PCs, where it has displaced the ISA bus as standard.
- Advanced Graphics Port AGP (Advanced Graphics Port) is a specific port for connecting the graphics card and is only used for 3D accelerator cards. There are four types, AGP, AGP 2x, AGP 4x and AGP 8x. It is currently being displaced by PCI-Express port that provides higher speed ratios.
- PCI-Express represents an evolution from the PCI bus using programming concepts and communication standards exist, but is based on a long range communication system faster.
Now all those slot should be handled by something and that something is nothing more to the Chipset. A chipset is a chipset designed to work together and offer higher performance to the system. Chipset manufacturers are in the most cases other manufacturers of motherboards that enables different brands integrate the same chipset boards. Most current integrated chipsets drivers for graphics cards, sound cards, network and other devices that allow a higher level of integration on the board itself. The following image is a diagram of an ATX motherboard in the picture look details the main components present in it.
Now we saw a bit on the motherboards going to the subject matter meets the PS3 motherboard. The motherboard of the PS3 is nothing more than a circuit board designed specifically for use by the Cell processor. Unlike the motherboards of computers that do not have PCI expansion ports nor AGP, IDE and Ram memory banks.
These integrated motherboard comes XDR memory, the Cell processor and RSX called Video circuits together. Many years ago, the game needed the central processor to perform all 3D calculations (polygons, textures, etc). With the coming of 3D graphics cards, all that calculus has been managed by them, leaving the processor free to perform calculations own video game itself. However, the CELL processor's unique architecture allows help to the graphics card to make certain load traverses to get those graphics so stunning. So that for the first time, processor and graphics card will return to work in creating 3D environments. In the following picture of the plate PS3 shows its design and in which we can distinguish the Cell processor and to the right are 4 black chips representing the XDR memory, we can also observe RSX graphics processor and connectors for different devices such as Blue Disc drive and SATA hard disk.
This motherboard is made by the prestigious company based in Taiwan ASUS. ASUS was founded in 1989 in Taiwan by TH Tung, Ted Hsu, Wayne Hsieh and MT Liao - all four were computer engineers from Acer signature. The current CEO and Chairman of ASUS, Jonney Shih, joined the company in 1994. According to the ASUS sales manager Alexander Kim the name ASUS has its origins in the English meaning Pegasus, referring to the winged horse of Greek mythology.
The first three letters of the word were deleted to give the resulting name a prime position in ordered lists alphabetically. In 2004, ASUS announced that it had sold more motherboards than the sum of sales of the other three leading companies in the sector, reaching 30 million. This shows that Sony chose a pioneer in its sector for the delicate mission of developing the motherboard of your most important product in the division of Entretenimento. MEMORY
understand how the processor of the PS3 and how it interacts with your motherboard, but the processor can do their calculations and operations, it must have something where you can store this information and is where XDR memory acts. But before we talk a little about the reports and their types.
Traditionally there has been talk of two existing main memory in personal computers, the ROM (Read Only Memory) and RAM (Random Access Memory) The former has said it is a permanent storage area and 'immutable' or read-only. And the second is the actual working area of \u200b\u200bthe PC. The ROM is actually a programmable memory to some extent, can be customized by an applet stored on it (THE SETUP), the PC functions to suit different kinds of components you can assemble a PC.
The BIOS is the only other generic name is known to the ROM also features a set of instructions that provide a specific behavior between the circuits of the machine and operating system. These instructions recorded by the manufacturer, modified or programmed only through advanced procedures: update software or BIOS reprogramming machines.
RAM instead is an empty workspace. A space that is created at the discretion of construction equipment integrator a PC with a certain space (128, 256, 512 megabytes, etc.). This is possible by inserting memory modules into the memory banks that have motherboards or motherboards.
The PS3 works with a different memory type current standard for PCs, today's computers work mostly with DDR2 and bus speed is different and depends directly on the motherboard which will work. DDR2 memory can work from 533 Mhz to 800 Mhz.
The type of memory that is on the PS3 is the XDR (extreme data rate) and not more than a supermemory which works at 4.8 GHz providing excellent transfer rate which can reach the negligible figure of 12.8Gbit / s. Sony's console is armed with 4 XDR memory chips that provide 256 MB of memory.
And if this is not just the PS3 also features 256 MB of VRAM (Video Random Access Memory) is a type of memory used for our graphics controller able to handle all the visual information, which is used exclusively for the PS3 graphics processor (RSX), thus freeing up the 256 MB XDR for exclusive use by the Cell processor.
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