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, physical, electrical, specification, lead, single, edge, connector, used, early, versions, athlon, processor, typeseccchip, form, factorspgacontacts242fsb, protocolev6fsb, frequency200, svoltage, range1, vprocessorsamd, athlon, 1000, predecessorsuper, so. 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 Slot ATypeSECCChip form factorsPGAContacts242FSB protocolEV6FSB frequency200 MT s 266 MT sVoltage range1 3 2 05 VProcessorsAMD Athlon 500 1000 MHz PredecessorSuper Socket 7SuccessorSocket AThis article is part of the CPU socket series 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motherboard manufacturers to keep costs down by stocking the same part for both Slot 1 and Slot A assemblies Slot A was superseded by Socket A See also EditList of AMD microprocessorsReferences Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Slot A CPU Sockets Chart users erols com Retrieved 2009 04 04 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Slot A amp oldid 1130635336, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,