Socket A

The Socket A ( also:. Socket 462 or Socket A ( 462 ); engl Socket A, Socket 462 or Socket A (462 ) ) is a processor socket for AMD processors Athlon, Duron, Athlon XP, Sempron and Geode series.

The Socket A replaced the previous slot A, after AMD could make the processor core and the cache of their processors on a shared The.

The Socket A was one of the most durable base of PC history, and was only replaced by Socket 754 for Athlon 64 and the new Sempron, Socket 939 for Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX and Opteron Socket 940 for Athlon FX and Opteron and. The last Athlon XP processor was produced by AMD in early July 2005. However, even for this socket boards are produced, as AMD offers 6W particularly energy -saving processors under the name Geode NX 1500 @. These motherboards are equipped with either SiS 741GX or KN400A VIA chipsets.

Based on the Socket A, the first IA-32 processors have been shipped with more than 1 GHz clock rate.