2.4Central Processing Unit (CPU)

2.4.1 Overview

The motherboard comes with dual surface mount 604-pin Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) sockets. The sockets are designed for the Intel Processor in the 603/604-pin package with 512KB L2 cache. The processor includes the Intel® NetBurst™ micro-architecture that features Hyper-Threading Technology, rapid execution engine, 533/400MHz system bus, and execution trace cache. Together, these attributes improve system performance by allowing higher core frequencies, faster execution of integer instructions, and data transfer rate of up to 4.2GBps/3.2GBps.

Xeon™ Processor

Gold Mark

PP-DLW

PP-DLW Socket 604

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.

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

The motherboard supports either one or two CPUs. If you are installing only one CPU, you MUST install it in CPU socket 1.

CPU Socket 1 (outer socket)

CPU Socket 2 (inner socket)

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Chapter 2: Hardware information