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Socket 370 Barebones Kit--This kit
includes a case, power supply, motherboard, and more!
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Socket 370 Basics
Socket 370 is Intel's new
plastic PGA (pin grid array) ZIF (zero insertion force) motherboard
socket for its line of Celeron and Pentium processors.
Socket 370 is the descriptive
term for the way certain Intel microprocessors plug into a computer
motherboard so that it makes contact with the motherboard's built-in
wires or data bus. The Socket 370 chip is less expensive to manufacture
than Slot 1 Pentium II chips. A Socket 370 chip is the same size as a
Socket 7 chip but has a different number of PINs and a different
voltage. Socket 370 is commonly used with Celeron processors.
Socket 370 uses the Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket. As its
name implies, the ZIF socket is designed for ease of manufacture and so
that the average computer owner will be able to upgrade the
microprocessor. The ZIF socket contains a lever that opens and closes,
securing the microprocessor in place. Different sockets have differing
numbers of pins and pin layout arrangements.
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Socket 370 (also called
PGA370) is a PGA socket originally designed by Intel for Celeron Mendocino
family of processors. These Celeron processors were produced in Plastic Pin Grid
Array (PPGA) package at speeds 300 - 533 MHz and had 66 MHz bus frequency. For
the next line of Pentium processors, i.e. Coppermine Pentium III and Celerons,
Intel elected to use the same socket 370. Coppermine processors used different
type of package - Flip Chip Pin Grid Array (FC-PGA), and they were not pin
compatible with PPGA processors. A few pins on FC-PGA processors had different
functions than on the PPGA CPUs, this was enough for new processors not to work
in old motherboards. FC-PGA processors were produced at speeds 533 - 1400 MHz
and had bus frequency 100 and 133 MHz.
  
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