What Is a Socket 7 Motherboard?

Socket 7: Socket means socket in English. Socket 7 is also called Super 7. Initially it was a socket designed by Intel Corporation for the Pentium MMX series CPU. Later Intel abandoned the Socket 7 interface and switched to the SLOT 1 interface. AMD, VIA, ALI, SIS and other manufacturers continued to use this interface until the development of the Socket A interface. The basic feature of this slot is 321 jacks, and the system uses a 66MHz bus. Super 7 motherboards have added support for 100MHz FSB and AGP interface types.

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Socket 7: Socket means socket in English. Socket 7 is also called Super 7. Initially it was a socket designed by Intel Corporation for the Pentium MMX series CPU. Later Intel abandoned the Socket 7 interface and switched to the SLOT 1 interface. AMD, VIA, ALI, SIS and other manufacturers continued to use this interface until the development of the Socket A interface. The basic feature of this slot is 321 jacks, and the system uses a 66MHz bus. Super 7 motherboards have added support for 100MHz FSB and AGP interface types.

Socket7 is not called Super7. The original socket 7 only supports Intel's own Pentium and PentiumMMX chip. The motherboard has 430TX and other representative chips.

Super7 is launched in the background with exactly the same number of pins. Some pin definitions are changed a bit, but compatible with socket7. The K6-2 K6-III chips that later withdrew belong to the Super7 specification. The main board represents MVP3 (VIA) SIS530.

So Pentium's Socket7 interface chips can work on Super7 motherboards, but Super7 standard CPUs can't work on motherboard chips that only support Socket7.

Socket 7: Socket means socket in English. Socket 7 is also called Super 7. Initially it was a socket designed by Intel Corporation for the Pentium MMX series CPU. Later Intel abandoned the Socket 7 interface and switched to the SLOT 1 interface. AMD, VIA, ALI, SIS and other manufacturers continued to use this interface until the development of the Socket A interface. The basic feature of this slot is 321 jacks, and the system uses a 66MHz bus. Super 7 motherboards have added support for 100MHz FSB and AGP interface types.

The chipset used in Super 7 includes motherboard products such as VIA's MVP3 and MVP4 series, SIS's 530/540 series and ALI's Aladdin V series. The products corresponding to the Super 7 interface CPU include AMD K6-2, K6-, Cyrix M2 and some other manufacturers' products. Such interfaces are currently obsolete and can only be seen by some older products.