Quote Originally Posted by Shintai View Post
Bloomsfield is actually just like AMD. Need a Northbridge and Southbridge.
Northbridge for a PCIe controller.

All other Nehalem versions wont have a Northbridge tho, since they got ondie PCIe.
in all the recent pictures of Nehalem die I haven't seen any PCIe links...

And you're making mistake calling the AMD chipsets NB+SB combo! If you want to be precise it's a combo of PCIe "Tunnel" and I/O controller!

NB by definition must have mem ctr. to bi called "bridge", 'cos it function is tu bridge "roads" from memory, and I/O controller with the "road" to the CPU it self (BUS)