DOS Games Discussion

Guest · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:08 am Post subject: Slots and Sockets

Does anyone know why the Pentium II was used with a slot instead of a socket? Did Intel save money by doing that? Or what?

wardrich · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:52 am Post subject:

Early pentium III's were slotted too. Through what I've heard, it was done b/c the socket versions had heat problems and they couldn't produce a proper fan & heatsink combo to do the tirck, so they made those behemoth slot chips to do all the cooling and such.

-Richard-

Kazer0 · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 4:18 pm Post subject:

Early celerons ran off slot as well. I have a slot 1 pII 266.

Guest · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 4:54 pm Post subject:

What else is strange is that they later switched to the old-fashioned socket (like 486 and Pentium 1).

wardrich · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:51 pm Post subject:

with newer technology they were able to correct the heating problems.

Guest · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 6:04 pm Post subject:

I guess it was lower voltage, right?

wardrich · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 11:00 pm Post subject:

I've actually no idea.

johpower · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 10:11 am Post subject:

There's also the versatility of using the same MBoard for P-II, P-III and Celeron. Just change the CPU daughterboard. Upgrade path is easy that way.... but they found they weren't making as much money on new mobo's. Hence back to a dedicated socket. And a few people in wet/dusty adverse climates had relibility problems with dirt and corrosion in the slot.

That's the skinny I got.