Super Socket 7 didn't arrive until 1998 and served as a stopgap for AMD, buying the company time to develop its own motherboard infrastructure (Slot A) after losing licensing of Intel's sockets ...

Every generation of Intel and AMD sockets is accompanied by a number of chipsets designed by the CPU manufacturers and produced by third-party motherboard manufacturers. The currently available ...

AMD uses various motherboard sockets for its 64-bit CPUs (Opteron, Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX, Turion 64). Socket 940 (940 pins) supports dual channel memory controllers, and Socket 754 supports a ...

From Mini-ITX models up to their EATX counterparts, TechRadar goes into detail about motherboard sizes in 2025, which companies are supporting them, the current-generation sockets, and everything ...

The PC motherboard that superseded the Baby AT design. The ATX layout rotated the CPU and memory 90 degrees, allowing full-length expansions to be plugged into all sockets. The power supply blows ...

As such, there's no easy answer for what the best motherboard can be, so it's vitally important to know the four commercially available sizes, rough pricings, and the sockets available for some of ...