chipset amd phenom X4 955

Q93627 said:

Where do i find the chipset for the amd phenom X4 955?
No results on amd website but i found a "chipset" on the boardvendors site under support, but the so called chipset i got from there turns out to be a very old amd catalyst driver which does not even support windows 10.
Is there no chipset for this old cpu? Maybe it doesnt matter to much bcs win10 seems to run just fine after i uninstalled catalyst.

That depends on your motherboard. Like so...

https://www.amd.com/en/support


My motherboard ( on which I had a X4 955 CPU), had a 990FX chipset.
So I would have chosen the selections shown in these boxes...





The chipset drivers depend on the motherboard chipset... not on the CPU.




You can get the free version of SPECCY, here. It will tell you what motherboard you have...

Download Speccy | Find your computer specs, free!



For example... my current motherboard has an X570 chipset...





My long ago X4 955 build was this...

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 <---- motherboard

Q93627 said:

Thank you... mainboard: gigagyte 970A-DS3P - bios version f1, but its like i said the mainboard vendor (gigabyte) chipset is not really a chipset but more like adm catalyst driver..
woop, you mean this? GA-970A-DS3P (rev. 1.0) Specification | Motherboard - GIGABYTE Global
it says Chipset: North Bridge: AMD 970, South Bridge: AMD SB950
how does a board have two chipset and where is my cpu mounted?!

Motherboards all used to have two chipsets. A north and a south bridge.
About 10-12 years ago, they started combining both into one chipset. In your case, that would be the 970 chipset.

The CPU is called a "processor" and is not part of the chipset.
The CPU is like a math teacher, the RAM is like his chalkboard, and the chipset is like a policeman that controls all the travel on the various circuits of the motherboard.

Long story short... this is your chipset driver....

https://www.amd.com/en/support/chips...s-chipsets/970


Just download the correct one for Windows 10... 32 or 64 bit, save it to your desktop and double click it to install.
You are probably running a 64 bit system.
Settings > System > About ...will tell you whether Windows is 32 or 64 bit.

@Q93627


Here is a pic of your motherboard.
The CPU = RED box
Chipset = 2x BLUE boxes

And on modern motherboards, with only a single chipset... it would be located where the GREEN box is.









Here's a pic of my current (newer) motherboard....

RED = CPU
GREEN = chipset.

North bridge is on the CPU has been since it was removed from its location they never combined it into one chip because that would be worse real estate to the traditional location of the north bridge as the chipset is right at the bottom of the board which is slow.

Ram and other functions needed to be directly tied to the CPU because it was a massive bottle neck. Its why core 2 duo feels really old and slow now.

The rest of the south bridge is also subject to going on the CPU eventually some of it is there already as the rest is subject to plateau being that it is far away from the CPU in most cases.
Without thinking to much its probably why Sata is still stuck on 6gbit/s and is basically legacy now where as nvme can go well above that as its on the pci lanes directly.

in time this could mean that it goes on the CPU as well or the standard takes a slow death. As NVME gets cheaper and more reasonable more space and cost effective then we could see eventually that the Sata slot becomes non existent or at least a legacy minimal over time, instead of 6 or more slots it will be like one or two for compatibility and then eventually non existant.

it does more than just Sata of course like many of the little connectors around the outside of the board and many functions from bios. Which don't require a lot of speed. But i think overtime it will be revised Sata is becoming defacto and the main reason to keep a slower design in play the rest can just go closer to the CPU over time.