[Geminiwave]

Okay I see these questions alot:

"Will a socket X proc work on a Socket Y?"

Socket A processors will only with with Socket A motherboards

Socket 939 procs will only work with socket 939 mobos

etc etc etc

thats the way it works. You cannot run a socket 940 processor on a socket 939 motherboard no matter how similar it looks. Even if the pins were identical, you still have to deal with the Registered vs. non-registered memory controllers.

Back in the day, they had adapters for sockets or slots, but it simply does not work this way anymore.

I hope this clears up alot of confusion for people.

[Matth]

There have been quite a catalogue of sockets over the years, and a brief foray into slots.

Is it worth tracking them ALL down?

The old era had Intel, Cyrix and AMD all fitting into the same Socket (or minor variants of)

http://www.lusitanianet.com/history.htm - Looks comprehensive, but omits a few minor tweaks, like the development of Socket 7 into "Super Socket 7" - the basic definition of a full SS7 would be FSB clock of 100MHz and core voltages in 0.1 steps down to 2.2 - capable of supporting AMD K6-2 and K6-3.

Does NOT cover the 64 bit line of chips, nor any pre-486 sockets - but a good history of the rest.


The only adapters I can recall were:

1. "Powerleap" type adapters, to run a lower voltage MMX CPU in an older Socket 5/7 boartd
2. The "Slocket" for coupling a Socket370 CPU to a Slot 1 motherboard

[Geminiwave]

Yeah those are the ones I recall as well.

Wow that is a really good list too...

They should sticky this seriously though...or at least something like this because I see these questions come up alot on this and other forums.
One of my friends almost broke a pin off trying to stuff a 939 proc into a 940 mobo...course it didnt matter to him since he had tons of money(obviously, to afford a 939 processor in the first place) but it mattered to me cause it seemed wasteful.