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Slots and Sockets
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:08 am
by Guest
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?
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:52 am
by wardrich
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-
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 4:18 pm
by Kazer0
Early celerons ran off slot as well. I have a slot 1 pII 266.
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 4:54 pm
by Guest
What else is strange is that they later switched to the old-fashioned socket (like 486 and Pentium 1).
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:51 pm
by wardrich
with newer technology they were able to correct the heating problems.
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 6:04 pm
by Guest
I guess it was lower voltage, right?
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 11:00 pm
by wardrich
I've actually no idea.
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 10:11 am
by johpower
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.