On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Mike Buraczewski wrote:

> Good evening all
>
> Can someone explain to me the difference between a socket 7, super socket 7
> and socket 370?  I understand that the PPGA array for a celeron chip uses
> the socket 370.  Will an AMD chip work in a socket 370? or must it use the
> super socket 7.

     Socket 7 is what the original Pentium 75's and up used (although
there was a socket 5 that could only go to 133), and it can go up to
practically any MHZ (since many CPU's treat lower multiplier settings as
higher ones), the only catch is it is only officially good for a 66MHZ
CPU-board bus speed (also called the front side bus). Super socket 7 is
the same as socket 7 except it is offically good for 100MHZ and possibly
even higher front side bus speeds. Socket 370 is a completely
incompaticle socket made only for the Celeron, no other CPU currently
does and probably never will work in this socket. TTYL

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