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. The processor thermal solution (heatsink) and associated retention hardware. The LGA1366 socket and the Independent Loading Mechanism (ILM) and back plate. Read the full Intel® Core™ i7-900 Processor Extreme Edition Series and LGA1366 Socket Guide. LGA 1366, also known as Socket B, is an Intel CPU socket. This socket supersedes Intel's LGA 775 in the high-end and performance desktop segments. It also replaces the server-oriented LGA 771 in the entry level and is superseded itself by LGA 2011. LGA stands for land grid array. This socket has 1,366 protruding pins which touch contact points on the underside of the processor (CPU) and accesses up to three channels of DDR3 memory via the processor's internal memory controller. Socket 1366 uses.
In the beginning, a CPU socket was compatible with just one kind of processor. This scenario changed with the launching of the 486 processor and the massive use of ZIF (Zero Insertion Force) sockets, also known as LIF (Low Insertion Force). The ZIF socket has a lever that installs and removes the CPU from the socket without the need of the user or the technician to press the CPU down in order for it to be installed on the socket. The use of this socket greatly lowered the chances of breaking or bending the CPU pins during its installation or removal. The use of the same pinout by more than one processor allowed the user or the technician to install different processor models on the same motherboard by merely removing the old CPU and installing the new one. Of course, the motherboard needed to be compatible with the new CPU being installed and also properly configured.
Since then, both Intel and AMD have been developing a series of sockets and slots to be used by their CPUs.The socket created to be used together with the very first 486 processor wasn’t ZIF and didn’t allow you to replace the CPU with a different processor model. Even though this socket didn’t have an official name, let’s call it “socket 0.” After socket 0, Intel released socket 1, which had the same pinout as socket 0 with the addition of a key pin. It also adopted the ZIF standard, allowing the installation of several different types of processors on the same socket (i.e., on the same motherboard). Other socket standards were released for the 486 family after socket 1 (socket 2, socket 3, and socket 6) in order to increase the number of CPU models that could be installed on the CPU socket. Thus, socket 2 accepts the same CPUs accepted by socket 1 in addition to some more models, and so forth. Even though the socket 6 was designed, it was never used. Thus, we usually call the pinout used by 486-class processors as “socket 3.” Originally, Intel defined “overdrive” as the possibility of a socket to accept more than one CPU model.
Intel also adopted this name on newer CPUs that used a pinout from an older CPU in order to allow the new CPU to be installed on an older motherboard.The first Pentium processors (60 MHz and 66 MHz) used a pinout standard called socket 4, which was fed with 5 V. Pentium processors from 75 MHz on were fed with 3.3 V, requiring a new socket, called socket 5, which was incompatible with socket 4. (For example, a Pentium-60 couldn’t be installed on socket 5 and a Pentium-100 couldn’t be installed on socket 4.).
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Socket 7 uses the same pinout as socket 5 with the addition of one key pin, accepting the same processors accepted by socket 5 plus new CPUs, especially CPUs designed by competing companies. (The real difference between socket 5 and socket 7 is that while socket 5 always fed the CPU with 3.3 V, socket 7 allowed the CPU to be fed with a different voltage level, such as 3.5 V or 2.8 V, for example.) Super 7 socket is a socket 7 capable of running up to 100 MHz, used by AMD CPUs. We usually call the Pentium Classic and compatible CPUs pinout as “socket 7.”.
IntroductionReady or not, the age of Nehalem is finally upon us and with it comes Intel's new Socket LGA 1366 processor interface. Socket LGA 775 has lived a long and distinguished life, longer than any other Intel processor socket to date. To put this in perspective, when LGA 775 first came on the scene we were still using Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) graphics cards.For cooler manufacturers, Intel's i7 couldn't come soon enough. Since LGA 775 reigned supreme for such a long period of time, cooler sales have steadily declined. With diminishing returns on investment, funding for research and development has also dipped and without strong R&D, innovative new products come few and far between.