Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Installing microprocessors

The mounting mechanism for CPUs vary from one type to the other. Consult your motherboard manual for mounting these microprocessors. These are the main types of microprocessors that are still in the market and are not interchangeable:


Socket 478, for Pentium 4 and newer Celeron
Socket 423, for older Pentium 4
Socket A / 462, for AMD Athlon Thunderbird, Duron, and XP
Socket 603/604, for Intel Xeon
Socket 940, for AMD Opteron
Socket 7, for classic Pentium and Pentium MMX, AMD K6, and Cyrix microprocessors
Super Socket 7, for AMD K6-2 and K6-3 microprocessors
Socket 370, for Intel Celeron microprocessors and Pentium III
Slot 1, for Intel Pentium II and III microprocessors Slot A, for AMD Athlon microprocessors

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