1.8Central Processing Unit (CPU)

1.8.1 Overview

The motherboard comes with a surface mount 478-pin Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket. The socket is designed for the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor in the 478-pin package with 512/256KB L2 cache on 0.13 micron process. This processor supports 400MHz front side bus (FSB), and allows a data transfer rate of 3.2GB/s.

Note in the illustration that the CPU has a

gold triangular mark on one corner. This mark indicates the processor Pin 1 that should match a specific corner of the CPU socket.

Gold Mark

Incorrect installation of the CPU into the socket may bend the pins and severely damage the CPU!

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