The Pentium II and Pentium III. Both have 370 pins but one is slot 1 and other is socket 370. An adapter is needed to convert a Slot 1 to socket 370 to handle a Pentium III. One problem with this upgrade, is the limits of the front side bus and the multiplier. Doing an BIOS upgrade may not work in those days, but a soldering iron may work.
Doing the same for AMD Athlon (slot A and socket A) takes some work because the amount of pins are different and the pin assignments are different too. If you compare the Thunderbird core and the Barton core, then yes there is an improvement, but if only if get an nVidia nForce2 chipset or VIA KT400 chipset.
Sure AMD did something stupid by providing 940 socket, 754 socket, 939 socket, socket F, and AM2/AM2+ socket. It seems to me that there were too many cooks for the K8 model. Intel did the same thing. They introduced, socket 423 and socket 478 for Pentium 4. Xeon uses either socket 603 or socket 604. In conclusion, both companies actually treat their customers the same way, but AMD was nicer each of the computing environments such as desktop, notebook, and server.
AMD has always provided better performance than their last processor they introduced. Intel on the other hand played an yo-yo game when they introduce a new processor. I guess Intel learn the hard way which is to always provide better performance than their last model or else ketchup. Unfortunately, AMD lost some employees that could be the culprits of AMD's delay, but we will never know.
To ease through AMD's new socket introductions, certain ASRock motherboard models may help. Though, I do think ASRock makes good motherboards.
[Posted by: linuxnerd | Date: 09/13/07 10:02:49 PM]
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