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Q. I've just brought a old second hand PC and was going though the Orion videos following the stages, and I can't seem to find the zif socket (where the CPU goes). Are newer computers fitted with different kinds of zif sockets? I can see many similar looking types to the cpu, but none with a arm.

A.  It looks like a Pentium II or early Pentium III. Around this time Intel introduced a new CPU fitting called Slot 1. That is what we may have here. About the same time AMD also came up with something almost identical, Slot A.

this was later abandoned and we returned to ZIF Sockets. If you take a look in the CPU guide on the BTEC CD it is mentioned. Almost all computers use some kind of ZIF, for the CPU except this P2 /early P3 period.

The CPU is the big black thing that fits into a slot and that's it. Apart from this there is no difference in how the computer works (as far as we are concerned), it's simply a different kind of fitting.

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