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Engineering sample dual Socket A

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First post, by Repo Man11

Posted on 2019-12-08, 01:48

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I imagine that most of you are already aware of Retro Hardware's channel on YouTube. I'm curious to know if any of you might know why the engineering sample Socket A motherboard that appears at about the five minute mark in this video has what looks like an embedded K6-2 CPU on the board?

https://youtu.be/_lEhuD1o4I0

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Reply 1 of 7, by Arctic

Posted on 2019-12-08, 01:56

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AMD reused the K6 style heatspreaders for chipsets on some boards.

Reply 2 of 7, by Repo Man11

Posted on 2019-12-08, 02:10

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But that looks like the same ceramic base as a K6-2, and at one point you can even see the pins from edge on.

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Posted on 2019-12-08, 02:13

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Apparently, the 762 is the chipset number. I've never before seen one that looked so much like a CPU. https://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Guides/amd762/

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