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    The Socket 8 CPU socket was used exclusively with the Intel Pentium Pro and Pentium II Overdrive computer processors. Intel discontinued Socket 8 in favor...
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  • It was originally released for 486 motherboards, and later some Pentium sockets. Intel dropped the brand, as it failed to appeal to corporate buyers, and...
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    Socket 7 is a physical and electrical specification for an x86-style CPU socket on a personal computer motherboard. It was released in June 1995. The...
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    In computer hardware, a CPU socket or CPU slot contains one or more mechanical components providing mechanical and electrical connections between a microprocessor...
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    Socket A (also known as Socket 462) is a zero insertion force pin grid array (PGA) CPU socket used for AMD processors ranging from the Athlon Thunderbird...
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    Socket AM5 (LGA 1718) is a zero insertion force flip-chip land grid array (LGA) CPU socket designed by AMD that is used for AMD Ryzen microprocessors starting...
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    Slot 1 (category Intel CPU sockets)
    transition from socket to slot necessary. Previously with the Pentium Pro, Intel had combined processor and cache dies in the same Socket 8 package. These...
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    configurations and only came in one form factor, the relatively large rectangular Socket 8. The Pentium Pro was succeeded by the Pentium II Xeon in 1998. The lead...
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    Slotket (category CPU sockets)
    slot-based motherboards. Slotkets were first created to allow the use of Socket 8 Pentium Pro processors on Slot 1 motherboards. However, only a few number...
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    Socket AM4 is a PGA microprocessor socket used by AMD's central processing units (CPUs) built on the Zen (including Zen+, Zen 2 and Zen 3) and Excavator...
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    pin grid array (SPGA) is used by Intel processors based on Socket 5 and Socket 7. Socket 8 used a partial SPGA layout on half the processor. It consists...
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    Socket AM3+ is a modification of Socket AM3, which was released on February 9, 2009. AM3+ was released in mid-2011 designed for CPUs which use the AMD...
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    WebSocket is a computer communications protocol, providing a simultaneous two-way communication channel over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)...
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  • VIA Technologies. Northbridge chips are listed first, primarily by CPU-socket or CPU-family; southbridge chips are listed in a later table. VIA chipsets...
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    is 8 and the maximum number of PCIe 5.0 lanes is 128 with a Threadripper PRO CPU and a WRX90 motherboard. Ryzen Socket sWRX8 Socket sTRX4 Socket SP6...
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  • Thumbnail for AC power plugs and sockets
    AC power plugs and sockets connect devices to mains electricity to supply them with electrical power. A plug is the connector attached to an electrically...
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  • A network socket is a software structure within a network node of a computer network that serves as an endpoint for sending and receiving data across the...
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    these were available as Pentium OverDrive that would fit into older CPU sockets. In parallel with the P5 microarchitecture, Intel developed the P6 microarchitecture...
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    variants) Pentium Pro Pentium II Overdrive (a Pentium II chip in the 387 pin Socket 8) Pentium II Pentium II Xeon Pentium III Pentium III Xeon Upon release of...
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  • 512 KB 66 MT/s 2.5× 3.3 V 35 W Socket 8 Q1, 1996 $1,682 Pentium Pro 180 180 MHz 256 KB 60 MT/s 3× 3.3 V 31.7 W Socket 8 November 1, 1995 $1,075 Pentium...
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    cache: 512 KB external chip on CPU module running at 100% of CPU speed Socket: Socket 8 Front-side bus: 60 or 66 MT/s, GTL+ VCore: 3.1–3.3 V (Has on-board...
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    Socket 478, also known as mPGA478 or mPGA478B, is a 478-contact CPU socket used for Intel's Pentium 4 and Celeron series CPUs. Socket 478 was launched...
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    different pin configuration to Socket FM2 with two additional pin sockets. Socket FM2+ APUs are not compatible with Socket FM2 motherboards due to the aforementioned...
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    Socket 939 (also known as Socket AM1) is a CPU socket released by AMD in June 2004 to supersede the previous Socket 754 for Athlon 64 processors. Socket...
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    process: 14 nm. Common features: Socket: BGA 2270. All the CPUs support dual-channel DDR4-2400 RAM. All CPU models provide 8 lanes of PCIe 3.0. All CPUs feature...
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  • CEE 7 is a standard for alternating-current plugs and sockets. First published in 1951 by the former International Commission on the Rules for the Approval...
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    LGA 1366 (redirect from Socket B)
    (land grid array 1366), also known as Socket B, is an Intel CPU socket. This socket supersedes Intel's LGA 775 (Socket T) in the high-end and performance...
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    Plugs and sockets for electrical appliances not hardwired to mains electricity originated in the United Kingdom in the 1870s and were initially two-pin...
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    digit refers to the number of sockets in the system: 1 to 3 for one socket, 4 to 7 for two sockets, and 8 or 9 for four sockets. The middle digit refers to...
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    LGA 1155 (redirect from Socket H2)
    LGA 1155, also called Socket H2, is a zero insertion force flip-chip land grid array (LGA) CPU socket designed by Intel for their CPUs based on the Sandy...
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