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ASUS AP120-E1 user guide
2.4
Installing a Central Processing Unit (CPU)
2.4.1 Overview
The motherboard comes with a surface mount 478-pin Zero Insertion
Force (ZIF) socket. The socket is designed for the Intel
®
Pentium
®
4
Prescott processor in the 478-pin package with 512KB L2 cache. The
motherboard supports 800/533/400MHz front side bus (FSB), and allows
data transfer rates of up to 6.4GB/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.
Incorrect installation of the CPU into the socket may bend the pins and
severely damage the CPU!
P4P800S-E
®
P4P800S-E Socket 478
Gold Arrow
