Socket 754
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| Type | PGA-ZIF |
|---|---|
| Chip form factors | OPGA |
| Contacts | 754 |
| FSB frequency | 200 MHz System clock 800 MHz HyperTransport |
| Voltage range | 0.8 - 1.55 V |
| Processors | AMD Athlon 64 (2800+ - 3700+) AMD Sempron (2500+ - ) AMD Turion 64 (ML and MT) AMD Mobile Athlon 64 (2800+ - 4000+) |
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Socket 754 is a CPU socket originally developed by AMD to succeed its Athlon XP platform (socket 462, also referred to as Socket A). Socket 754 was the first socket developed by AMD to support their new consumer version of the 64 bit microprocessor family known as AMD64.[1]
Technical specifications
Socket 754 was the original socket for AMD's Athlon 64 desktop processors. Due to the introduction of newer socket layouts (i.e. Socket 939, Socket 940 and Socket AM2), Socket 754 has become the more "budget-minded" socket for use with AMD Athlon 64 or Sempron processors. In comparison, it differs from Socket 939 in several areas:
- support for a single channel memory controller (64-bits wide) with maximum of 3 DIMMs (no dual channel support)
- lower HyperTransport speed (800 MHz Bi-Directional, 16 bit data path, up and downstream)
- lower effective data bandwidth (9.6 GB/s)
- lower motherboard manufacturing costs
Although AMD has promoted Socket 754 as a budget platform on the desktop and encouraged mid and high end users to use newer platforms, Socket 754 remained for some time as AMD's high end solution for mobile applications, (e.g. the HP zv6000 series). However, Socket S1 has been released and is slated to supersede Socket 754 in the mobile CPU segment through its support for dual core CPUs and DDR2 SDRAM.
Availability
The first processors using Socket 754 came on the market in the second half of 2003. Socket 754 was gradually phased out in favor of Socket AM2 in desktops, released on May 23, 2006, and Socket S1 in laptops.
See also
- List of AMD microprocessors
- List of AMD Athlon 64 microprocessors
- List of AMD Sempron microprocessors
References
- ^ "CPU Sockets Chart". users.erols.com. Retrieved 2009-04-04.