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I'm having a lot of trouble learning card and socket/slot connectors. Can somebody reccommend a good tutorial or give me some tips on remembering this stuff?

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TeKniques

Just check out the technotes on this site. For your particular issue, this one is good:

http://www.techexams.net/technotes/cpu_sockets.shtml

entzilla

I'll check that out, thanks!

nathanamthor

entzilla wrote:

I'm having a lot of trouble learning card and socket/slot connectors. Can somebody reccommend a good tutorial or give me some tips on remembering this stuff?

If you don't have experience working with the hw, it can be tough. A good way to get a sense of what different motherboards with different hardware look like is to go to a manufacturer's website and look at their spec sheets, which often have full diagrams and can be filtered by socket/slot time.They usually have archived content as well. Here's a couple:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw

http://www.asus.com