Type | SECC |
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Chip form factors | PGA |
Contacts | 242 |
FSB protocol | EV6 |
FSB frequency | 200 MT/s, 266 MT/s |
Voltage range | 1.3 - 2.05 V |
Processors | AMDAthlon (500-1000 MHz) |
Predecessor | Super Socket 7 |
Successor | Socket A |
This article is part of the CPU socket series |
- Amd Athlon 1000 Mhz Slot Antenna
- Amd Athlon Slot A
- Amd Athlon 1000 Mhz Slot Adapter
- Amd Athlon 1000 Mhz Slot Am Fm
- Amd Athlon 1000 Mhz Slot Antennas
Slot A is the physical and electrical specification for a 242-lead single-edge-connector used by early versions of AMD's Athlon processor.[1]
Amd Athlon 1000 Mhz Slot Antenna
Faster Slot-A processors had to compromise further and run at 2/5 (up to 850 MHz, 340 MHz cache) or 1/3 (up to 1 GHz, 333 MHz cache). This later race to 1 GHz (1000 MHz) by AMD and Intel further exacerbated this bottleneck as ever higher speed processors demonstrated decreasing gains in overall performance—stagnant SRAM cache memory speeds. Speeds of up to 1000 MHz were now possible with Slot A. The 512 kB L2 cache was located externally on the processor module. AMD Athlon K75 with Orion core for Slot A. Milestone in the world of x86. The AMD Athlon 1 GHz Slot Ais a revision using the Thunderbird core with the addition of 256 kB of L2 cache which runs at full CPU speed.
The Slot A connector allows for a higher bus rate than Socket 7 or Super Socket 7. Slot A motherboards use the EV6 bus protocol, a technology originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for its Alpha 21264 microprocessor.
Slot A is mechanically compatible but electrically incompatible with Intel's Slot 1. As a consequence, Slot A motherboards were designed to have the connector's installed orientation be rotated 180 degrees relative to Slot 1 motherboards to discourage accidental insertion of a Slot 1 processor into a Slot A motherboard, and vice versa. The choice to use the same mechanical connector as the Intel Slot 1 also allowed motherboard manufacturers to keep costs down by stocking the same part for both Slot 1 and Slot A assemblies.
Slot A was superseded by Socket A.
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This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the 'relicensing' terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.
Amd Athlon Slot A
Amd Athlon 1000 Mhz Slot Adapter
- ^'CPU Sockets Chart'. users.erols.com. Retrieved 2009-04-04.
Amd Athlon 1000 Mhz Slot Am Fm
This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the 'relicensing' terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.
Amd Athlon Slot A
Amd Athlon 1000 Mhz Slot Adapter
- ^'CPU Sockets Chart'. users.erols.com. Retrieved 2009-04-04.
Amd Athlon 1000 Mhz Slot Am Fm
Bus type | FSB |
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Bus width | 64-bit |
Bus speed | 200 MHz |
Manufacturer | AMD |
Chipset | Thunderbird |
Connectors | Unknown |
Requires -5VDC? | Unknown 'Unknown' is not recognized as a Boolean (true/false) value. |
Requires -12VDC? | Unknown 'Unknown' is not recognized as a Boolean (true/false) value. |
CPU | |
Socket | Slot A |
Clock speed | 1000 MHz |
Architecture | x86, K7 |
Endian | Little |
Register size | 32 bit |
Addressable memory | 32 bit |
Driver | N/A |
The AMD Athlon 1 GHz Slot A is a revision using the Thunderbird core with the addition of 256 kB of L2 cache which runs at full CPU speed.
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