Slot 1

[peteroy]

Do you remember when processors moved from Socket 7 to Slot 1?

I remember at that time I thought "wow, now processors use slot 1 instead of socket".

Why Intel and AMD didn't stay with the slot processors?

I mean, why they moved from socket to slot and then back to socket?

Did they find out that socket is faster than slot? If so, why they moved to slot 1.

Also, it seems like it should be easier to cool a slot 1 processor since you can cool it in 2 sides with wider heatsink.

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[Spitfire_x86]

Intel moved to Slot 1 from Socket seven with Pentium II 266 MHz processors.

Intel & AMD used slot in the days when they used external SRAM chip as L2 cache. Now the L2 cache is on-die. On-die L2 cache is faster and with from 0.18µ fabrication process, it's cheaper to made on-die L2 cahche CPUs than making slot based external L2 cache CPUs. So they gave up slot and went back to socket.

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[Unolocogringo]

Slot ! was needed to carry the OFF die cache.

Before the Level 2 cache was mounted on the motherboard and ran at FSB speed.

With Slot 1 the L2 cache is mounted next to the processor and runs at Half or 1/3 processor speed.

Now todays processors have On-die L2 &L3 cache running at processor speed.

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