socket

[KoRn_quebecois]

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]

Turn the volume down! What is socket 974?

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[endyen]

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.

 

[TheRod]

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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[TheRod]

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!

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