I thought it was just one socket.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/11/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Pascoe</b> <<a href="mailto:ianpascoe@btinternet.com">ianpascoe@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi<br><br>I'm going round in ever decreasing circles! Can someone please put me<br>straight ....
<br><br>How many sockets, on a motherboard, do multi-core processors require? I<br>originally thought that each processor, no matter how many cores, only<br>required the one socket, and if the motherboard had another CPU socket
<br>spare, you could install a duplicate of the existing one thereby doubling<br>your CPU. However, now I'm not too sure as some multi core processors<br>appear to need dual sockets on the motherboard - most notably Intel's Quad.
<br>On the other hand I could have this totally rear end facing forward ....<br>help!<br><br>Ian<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Malvern mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Malvern@mailman.lug.org.uk">
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