AMD's Thunderbird finally fully fledged
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By Thomas Pabst
published SocketA
The new socket for Thunderbird will have no less than 462 pins and therefore look a lot different than the Socket370 used by Intel processors.
Socket A
Socket370
Currently, SocketA is only supported by AMD's good old 750 chipset and VIA's recently renamed Apollo KT133 chipset. We are expecting a lot of new SocketA motherboards at Computex / Taipei, which is starting today.
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