Originally Posted by bal8664

Via is a company who make chipsets. The Asus P5AD2 uses an Intel 925X chipset.

A Chipset is the main component of the motherboard, it consists of two chips. A North Bridge(Memory and Expansion BUS) and a South Bridge(I/O)

The North bridge is the interface between the CPU, the RAM and the Expansion BUS (AGP and PCI) The South Bridge handles the I/O system, Usually IDE drives and the USB ports, but can also contain onboard sound, onboard ethernet, firewire, and a number of other things.

That clarify things?