Difference between Socket 3 and Socket 5 (Intel)

[Energenie]

Friday, June 15, 2001 1:15 PM (NEW!)



Hey all quick question, whats the difference between Socket 3 and Socket 5, I'm trying to put together a Cable router with a 486 processor so I wont need the fans, I've got a Socket 3 with a 486 in it but it doesn't have any PCI slots in the MOBO, I need at least one PCI so I can use my extra NIC cards and not buy anything But the MOBO that has the PCI slot has a Socket 5 for the chip. Will the 486 chip work in this?? Thank in advance.

 

[bozo1]

Don't know what a Socket 5 is but 486 predates PCI. PCI didn't start showing up until the Pentium days.

 

[Odeen]

There were 486 boards with PCI, back when the P66 was king, and 486DX4-100's were about equal in speed to it.

 

[MysticLlama]

If you have a socket5 board you can buy pentium chips real cheap. (I even have a few ) They go for like $10-15 shipped, up to 20 for an MMX, but I'm not sure if those work on a socket5, or if they require a 7, I think they require a 7.

 

[pukemon]

Socket 1, 2 , and 3 were all 486 Sockets. Socket 4 was for the Pentium 60 and 66. Socket 5 was for Pentium 75-133. Most people know was Socket7 and newer are. So to answer the original question, no you can't put a 486 in a Socket 5 board.

And actually PCI has been around for a while, aroud the time of VLB. There were quite a few PCI 486 boards out there, even in Dells, Gateways, Compaqs etc. Its just that VLB was more popular (and cheaper) around 1993-1994.