Socket Types

Question 1

Intel LGA 775

Answer 1

• AKA “Socket T”
• Circa 2004
  • late Pentium 4
  • Intel Core 2 Duo
  • Xeon/Celeron

Question 2

Intel LGA 1366

Answer 2

• 2008
• AKA “Socket B”
• Intel Core i7

Question 3

Intel LGA 1156

Answer 3

• 2009
• AKA “Socket H” or “H1”
• Northbridge on the chip

Question 4

Intel LGA 1155

Answer 4

• 2011
• “Socket H2”
• Replaced LGA 1156: not backwards compatible
• Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge microprocessors

Question 5

Intel LGA 1150

Answer 5

• 2013
• “Socket H3”

Replaced LGA 1155

•Haswell and Broadwell microarchitecture

Question 6

Intel LGA 2011

Answer 6

• 2011
• Replaced LGA 1136/1567
• “Socket R”
• High end desktop/servers
• Sandy Bridge-E/EP and Ivy Bridge-E/EP

Question 7

AMD Socket AM3

Answer 7

• 2009
• 941 pins PGA ZIF

• Replaced AM2/AM2+
- can use in socket (BIOS upgrade)

Athlon II/Phenom II

Question 8

AMD Socket AM3+

Answer 8

• 2011
• 943 pins PGA-ZIF
• Use AM3 CPU in AM3+ socket
• Athlon II/Phenom II

Question 9

AMD Socket FM1

Answer 9

• 2011
• AMD 10h CPU architectures
  • Faster speeds (DDR3)
  • PCIe 2.0 controller on CPU

• 905 pins

Question 10

AMD Socket FM2

Answer 10

• 2012
• 904 Lina PGA-ZIF
• Piledriver CPU architecture

Question 11

AND FM2+

Answer 11

• 2014
• 906 pins Micro PGA-ZIF
• “Socket FM2b”
• Steamroller CPU architecture