They provide an overview of all relevant processor and chipset features. The most important things to watch out for when installing a new processor or exchanging the CPU are the core voltage and the multipliers. Apart from this, you'll find important information about the size of the L2 cache, its ratio to the actual processor clock speed and additional items such as the system bus, architecture and micron manufacturing process here. An extensive chipset overview follows the processor overview. This tells you which CPU is supported by which chipset and gives you the most essential details.
Every abbreviation is explained for each table and some are explained using figures.
However, signals and protocols are different. On all other Slot-1 CPUs the L2 cache runs at half speed. The differences between FC-PGA, PPGA, CPGA, Slot 1, Slot A, Socket 370 and Socket 7 in illustrations. II Copyright of all documents and scripts belonging to this site by Thomas Pabst 1996 - 2001. Most of the information contained on this site is copyrighted material.