is this really all the sockets I know

marzmega

Socket 7 - pentium, pentium mmx, amd k6, k6-2, k6-3
Socket 8 - pentium pro
slot 1 - pII, pIII, celeron
socket 370 - same as above
slot a - athlon
socket a - athlon, athlon XP, duron

marzmega

is this question offensive?

Webmaster

I don't think so... but I think you are the only one that can answer your question

If you meant to ask if these are the only ones you need to know:
These are the ones you are most likely to get questioned on.

CompTIA Exam Objectives wrote:

4.1 Distinguish between the popular CPU chips in terms of their basic characteristics

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bellboy

you may find that some socket 7 motherboards are actually referred to as super socket 7 motherboards. this is because, then intel introduced the celeron and pii cpu, they did not contiue to manufacture new socket 7 chipsets. amd and others continued to manufacture socket 7 cpu until they reached approx 500mhz.

do some research on the xeon processor. post in this forum which socket/slot you might find a xeon processor.

longshot

Exam wise.... might there be a difference between the Socket 7 and the Super Socket 7? (zif ?)

lazyart

physically they are the same. A socket 7 pentium will drop into a "super" socket 7 board and run without problems. The difference between socket 7 and SS7 was the addition of 100 mhz FSB. While the final roll of pentiums operated on a 66 mhz base (using multipliers of up to 3.5 to reach it's final speed), the AMD K6-2 and K6-3 could use up to 100 mhz FSB officially.

You may be asked something like this:

Identify which processors are socket seven based:

a. Pentium MMX
b. Xeon
c. Pentium II
d. K6