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hardware, standard, processor (PGA370) A physical and
socket. Socket 370 uses a square
SPGA ZIF socket with 370
pins, arranged 37x37 (sometimes described as 19x19).
Intel originally designed Socket 370 for
PPGA Celeron
processors. Newer Socket 370 motherboards additionally
The difference between the two versions is electrical;
some pins are used differently and voltage requirements have
addition, Celeron processors require a 66 MHz front side bus
(
FSB), and Pentium III processors require a 100/133 MHz FSB.
Some older Socket 370 motherboards support VRM 8.4 and
variable bus speeds, so adapters are available that convert
the socket pinout to allow FC-PGA processors to work.
Socket 370 motherboards.
(2000-08-26)