Re: What is the difference betwenn "Slot A" and "Socket A" ?
- From: robert.inkol@xxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 2 Dec 2006 09:10:41 -0800
Slot A was the physical interface used by the first generation Athlons.
Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon for more information.
The Socket and Slot formats are completely incompatible. The
performance of the Socket A chips,,especially the Athlon XPs, benefited
from the on-chip L2 cache and other improvements, including faster
memory buses and highr clock speeds. Note that the early generation
Socket A motherboards do not properly support the faster memory buses
used by later models of the Athlon XP. In any case the later
motherboards are desirable since they are better featured (e.g., USB
2.0 support) and less likely to suffer from the defective capacitor
problems that were common in the motherboard industry in the period
around 2001.
There is no simple answer concerning motherboard compatibility with the
mobile XPs. The earlier Socket A motherboards are very questionable.
With newer motherboards, there are likely to be some issues getting the
cpu to run at full speed, though there are ways of resolving this
issue. If you are thinking of a particular configuration, futher
investigation via a google search would be useful.
Robert
Peter Meister wrote:
I am a bit confused about the difference of motherboard sockets
labelled "Slot A" and "Socket A".
Often it is written that AMD Athlon CPUS fit into SLot A
and at other places into Socket A.
So if Athlon CPUS fit into both types then the socket types must be the same ?
Or are there any differences ?
Which one is the "better" ?
Can both socket types hold AMD Athlon mobile resp AMD Athlon XP mobile CPUs ?
Peter
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