The evil i810E chipset
May 29 '01 (Updated Jan 03 '02)
The Bottom Line For Value/Budget minded computer building only.
This is a Pentium II/III/Celeron Chipset.
The Intel i810/i810E chipset's are value-line chipsets meant for reducing the total cost of building a computer for OEM's. Generally if you are into building yourself a computer you should avoid this chipset, due to the "DirectAGP Video" component. If you are on a budget and don't care about 3D game performance, you can get away with this chipset.
There is also the i810E2, which will be explained further on.
The i810e chipset is Intel's value chipset designed for Socket-370 processors. The i810e can be used with the Celeron and Pentium III in socket 370 versions. (However it is possible for a motherboard manufacturer to have used this chipset with Slot 1.)
The i810E chipset supports the 133Mhz Front-Side Bus, but also supports 100Mhz FSB and 66Mhz FSB. This means that you could use any Celeron, or Pentium III processor with this chipset as long as it fits in the socket. It would also be possible to use a Cyrix Socket 370 processor as well.
(NOTE: Although Intel’s site says that you can use the i810 series with Pentium II's, you can only do that if the i810 chipset is on a Slot-1 Motherboard.)
Intel markets the i810e with "DirectAGP," which is nothing more than a stripped down onboard Video subsystem that is not fast (think video card winmodem) since it relies heavily on the CPU (Of which it would like the SSE2 found in the Pentium III and 800Mhz+ Celeron (100Mhz FSB) to operate faster.)
The i810/i810E/i810E2 Support PC100 Memory, they do not support PC133 or DDR memory. They only support 512MB of RAM maximum.
Intel's Hub system is just a fancier name for what used to be called North Bridge and South Bridge chips. Basically instead of the South Bridge running on the PCI Bus, the ICH/ICH0 (I/O Controller Hub, former South Bridge) is at the end of the PCI bus and a faster bus is between
the ICH and the GMCH(Graphics and Memory Controller Hub)
The i810e Chipset ships with either the ICH or ICH0 (ICH0 contains a AC 97 Audio Codec.)
The i810e Chipset usually has the firmware hub/random number generator to complete the 3-chip "Chipset"
The firmware hub is basically what the BIOS is put in.
The difference between the i810 and the i810E is the different "North Bridge" or GMCH chip, which the i810 can only run at 66Mhz or 100Mhz Front Side Bus.
The difference between the i810E and the i810E2 is that the e2 uses the ICH2 instead of the ICH/ICH0.
ICH has a ATA66 controller and One USB controller (2 ports).
ICH0 has a ATA66 controller, One USB controller (2 ports), and AC97 Audio.
ICH2 has a ATA100 controller, 10/100Mbps Ethernet (LAN) or 1Mbps PNA (Network with normal phone line cables), Two USB Controllers (4 ports), AC97 Audio (Onboard Audio). The Ethernet support also supports Alert on LAN, which is a security/system failure detection using the LAN.
The Chipset markings for a i810 series is as follows:
82810E - GMCH (Graphics and Memory Controller Hub)
82801AA - ICH (I/O Controller Hub)
82801AB - ICH0 (I/O Controller Hub + AC97 Codec)
82801BA - ICH2 (I/O Controller Hub + AC97 Codec + LAN Controller)
82802AB/AC - FWH (Firmware / Random Number Generator Hub)
See http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/810/810e.htm for more information in i810E
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