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KoRn_quebecois   06-15-2004 at 01:54:02 AM

Hi
what are the differences with all these sockets?
what is a socket?
socket 478, socket 423, socket 974 ...
thanks


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Cybercraig   06-15-2004 at 03:27:46 AM
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Turn the volume down! What is socket 974?

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endyen   06-15-2004 at 03:34:20 AM
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The "socket" is where you plug the cpu into. Different sockets support different chips. Socket 423 was the original socket for P4 chips. It lasted several weeks. Since then, P4 has used socket 478.
Socket 754 was the original socket for A64 chips. Socket 939 is the new socket for FX and A64 chips.
Intel is about to come out with a new type of socket.

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TheRod   06-15-2004 at 03:33:07 PM
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what are the differences with all these sockets?
what is a socket?


Salut Korn,

Le socket est l'endroit où tu installes le processeur sur une carte mère. Différents "socket" existent pour différentes raisons. Premièrement, il y a le nombre de "pins" nécessaire pour un parler avec le chipset et la mémoire. Par exemple, les Athlon 64 ont un contrôleur mémoire intégré, donc, ils ont besoin de plus de "pins" d'où l'introduction des Socket754/939/940 de la part d'AMD pour remplacer le SocketA. Il y aussi la "largeur" des BUS. C'est à dire le nombre de voies entre les différentes composantes. Par exemple, un BUS de 32bits de large nécessite au moins 32 pins. Etc...

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Obtuse   06-15-2004 at 06:32:39 PM
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French is cool!. Gotta love the country that gave us Voltaire, Sartre, and Camus, not to mention where they bake some of the most delicious bread on earth, n'est-ce pas?

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TheRod   06-15-2004 at 07:17:38 PM
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French is cool!. Gotta love the country that gave us Voltaire, Sartre, and Camus


Actually, we are French Canadian... So we only provided the World amazing Hockey players and Celine Dion! :smile:

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Obtuse   06-16-2004 at 06:15:26 PM
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....Don't forget ATI.

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