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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Processor or CPU sockets


Every motherboard contain s at least one CPU socket, and the location varies from one motherboard standard to another. Some motherboards even contain sockets for more than one type of CPU.
A common CPU socket type is a zero insertion force (ZIF) socket, which is square, has a retention lever, and accommodates a certain number of pins to match certain CPUs that have a pin grid array (PGA), which means it has columns and rows to pins.

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