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Windmiller

Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 1716 Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 9:00 am Post subject: How to indentify Socket 4 and 5 PC's |
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Do you guys know of anyway to identify Socekt 4 and 5 Pentium PC? Maybe by the sticker?
There is a location here that is willing to stick Pentium machines aside for me but I dont know how to explain to them how to tell the difference between a Socket 4 or 5 and the standard Socket 7. They dont have time to pop the heatsink off of each one so identifying by the case would be the best. |
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Leevmeister

Joined: 16 Apr 2008 Posts: 414 Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| The first socket 4 PC i got had a red Intel Inside sticker, but i don't know if this sticker is only for socket 4 computers. |
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JAC

Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 3469
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 10:10 am Post subject: |
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| The only thing I know that does it is a set of the magic x-ray specs you see on the back of breakfast cereal boxes and comics. |
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Chook

Joined: 29 Oct 2008 Posts: 2250 Location: Australia
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Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 6:28 am Post subject: |
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Perhaps they could identify them by the size of the CPU. THe socket 4 is noticably bigger than socket 5 and this should be visible without removing the heatsink in most cases. Also, some socket 4 motherboards did not have a ZIF socket, which I don't think socket 5 ever had. _________________ General failure reading disk in drive A
Who's General Failure and why is he reading my disk? |
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