Socket 754

CPU socket | name = Socket 754


formfactors = OPGA
type = PGA-ZIF
contacts = 754
protocol =
fsb = 200 MHz System clock
800 MHz HyperTransport
voltage = 0.8 - 1.55 V
processors = AMD Athlon 64 (2800+ - 3700+)
AMD Sempron (2500+ - )
AMD Turion 64 (ML and MT)
AMD Mobile Athlon 64 (2800+ - 4000+)

Socket 754 is a CPU socket originally developed by AMD to succeed its Athlon XP platform (Socket 462, also referred to as Socket A). Socket 754 was the first socket developed by AMD to support their new consumer version of the 64 bit microprocessor family known as AMD64.

Comparison to other sockets

Socket 754 was the original socket for AMD's Athlon 64 desktop processors. Due to the recent introduction of newer socket layouts i.e. Socket 939 and AM2, Socket 754 has become the more "budget-minded" socket for use with AMD Athlon 64 or Sempron processors. In comparison, it differs from Socket 939 in several areas:
* support for a single channel memory controller (64-bits wide) with maximum of 3 DIMMs (no dual channel support)
* lower HyperTransport speed (800 MHz Bi-Directional, 16 bit data path, up and downstream)
* lower effective data bandwidth (9.6 GB/s)
* lower motherboard manufacturing costs

Although AMD has promoted Socket 754 as a budget platform on the desktop and encouraged mid and high end users to use Socket 939 (and recently Socket AM2) instead, Socket 754 remained for some time as AMD's high end solution for "mobile applications" i.e. no Socket 939 Athlon 64 CPUs have ever been marketed as a "mobile" processor, aside from at least the HP zv6000 series. Recently however, Socket S1 has been released and is slated to supersede Socket 754 in the mobile market through its support for dual core CPUs and DDR2 RAM.

Availability

The first processors using Socket 754 came on the market in Fall of 2003. Socket 754 was gradually phased out in favor of Socket AM2 in desktops, released on May 23, 2006, and Socket S1 in laptops.

ee also

*List of AMD Athlon 64 microprocessors
*List of AMD Sempron microprocessors