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can anyone help me by telling me the different sockets?

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Croton

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I hear a lot of talk about the AMD sockets...and i am pretty confused

can someone help me out by clarifying this stuff?

for instance, my brother just got an amd duron 800 processor - what is the socket for that?

thx
ning
 
Socket A

Socket A is for the Thunderbirds, Durons and soon the Palominos..
The older Athlons were slot A..

There are different kinds of slots and sockets for different cpu's.. it's just the socket or slot that the cpu fits into on the motherboard..

<edit> are you using your brother's logon here too? .... platinum? </edit>
 
There is only one socket available for AMD processors: Socket A.
Slot A was used for older Slot style Athlons.

For Intel processors, Socket 370 comes as 2 types: PPGA and FC-PGA. PPGA was used for older Celerons (300A - 533). FC-PGA is used for Pentium IIIs and newer Celerons (533A and up).
 
smp
haha...no that is my login. i'm just an intel guy and my brother and i are just starting to build an amd system, so i just wanted to get some info about the socket a.

thx guys
ning
 
You are probably thinking of the Socket 7 and older CPUS, They are too old for you too consider.

Socket-A All the way!!😀
 
And the next 2 AMD cpu's are still going to be Socket A so you will be good if you buy a newer mobo for upgrading later.
 
CPU
Sockets: Socket 1,2,3,6: 486 era sockets, 3 and 6 support overdrives and multiplier CPUs.
Socket 4: P60/66. Neither had multipliers
Socket 5/7: Pentium level.
Super 7: Socket 7 w/ 100MHz FSB support
Socket 8: PPro
Slot 1: P2/P3/Celeron
Slot 2: Xeon
Slot A: Athlon
Socket A/462: Athlon and Duron
Socket 370, 370 FCPGA, 370 FCPGA2: P3/Celeron
Socket 423: P4
Socket 478: P4 by the end of the year
Socket 513: P4 Xeon by the end of the year

Memory
DIPP: very old, not used since the 286
SIPP: about as old
30 pin SIMM: used in 286-486. Required quartets in 486s
72 pin SIMM: used in 486-P2. Required pairs in Pentium and later CPUs
168 pin DIMM: Socket 7 and later. Usually SDRAM, not always. Can be installed individually in most cases
144 pin SO-DIMM: notebook memory
184 pin DIMM: DDR module
RIMM: must be installed in pairs on i840 and i850 motherboards. Continuity RIMMs are needed for empty slots.

Expansion
ISA: possibly the oldest PC bus and still hangs around.
MCA: a bit faster than ISA, but wasn't fast enough to catch on
EISA: backward compatible with ISA, came close to catching on
PCI: currently the standard bus


There is exceptions to some of these descriptions. But they were just off the top of my head.
 
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