Socket A

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Socket 462 (also known as Socket A, not to be confused with the socket of the same name used for the PPC G3 processors) is a zero insertion force pin grid array (PGA) CPU socket used for AMD processors ranging from the Athlon Thunderbird to the Athlon XP/MP 3200+, and AMD budget processors including the Duron and Sempron.

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