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Chapter 3: Motherboard Info
3.4
Central Processing Unit (CPU)
The motherboard comes with a surface mount 478-pin Zero Insertion
Force (ZIF) socket. This socket is specifically designed for the Intel
®
Pentium
®
4/Celeron Northwood processor.
The Intel
®
Pentium
®
4/Celeron processor in the 478-pin package uses the
Flip-Chip Pin Grid Array 2 (FC-PGA2) package technology, and includes
the Intel
®
NetBurst™ micro-architecture. The Intel NetBurst micro-
architecture features the hyper-pipelined technology, rapid execution
engine, 533/400MHz system bus, and execution trace cache. Together,
these attributes improve system performance by allowing higher processor
frequencies, faster execution of integer instructions, and higher data
transfer rate.
P4SQ
P4SQ Socket 478
Gold Arrow
Refer to section “2.5 Installing a CPU” to install a CPU.
