The mainboard chip location near the cpu is: North bridge North Bridge is a chip on the computer motherboard, located in the CPU socket side, plays a connection role. Northbridge is one of two large-scale chips in the PC motherboard chipset. The North bridge is used to handle high-speed signals, typically handling cpus (processors), RAM (memory), AGP ports, or communication between PCIExpress and the South Bridge chip. The North bridge chip is the closest chip to the CPU on the motherboard, which is mainly due to the fact that the communication between the North bridge chip and the processor is the closest, and the transmission distance is shortened in order to improve the communication performance. The North Bridge plays a very obvious role in the computer, and plays a leading role in the computer, so people are also called the main bridge (HostBridge).
A computer motherboard, according to a certain way to hold, to the CPU socket for the north, that close to the CPU socket a connected chip called \"north bridge chip.\" English name: North Bridge Chipset NorthBridge chip (NorthBridge) is the most important component of the motherboard chipset that plays a leading role, also known as the main bridge (HostBridge).