First post, by Tetrium
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This has me bugging a little bit for several years now, which is kinda understandable as details are a bit vague on this.
Many people seem to think that Super Socket 7 simply means AGP + 100MHz FSB. But Super Socket 7 (I like to call it ss7) only means the FSB is 100MHz officially. The super is not due to the AGP port being present.
Now another thing is that (and please be mindful, I'm not trying to rant here, I just want definitive answers) I was looking for any official documentation about the definition of "Super Socket 7" and afaik this should've been AMD's department. But this definitional document is somehow eluding me (I can't find it).
So far all time-period reports seem to suggest I'm correct about the definition of Super Socket 7 being solely the FSB, NOT the presence or not of AGP.
Here's what I found so far during my little searching around.
First of all, AGP is being mentioned a lot from beginning 1998, but literally zero mentions of Super Socket 7.
SiS 5598 aug 1997
mentioning of AGP support (which SiS5598 does not have), but zero mention of Super 7
CPU world
For their next generation of processors Intel chose different socket type - slot 1, and completely abandoned socket 7. Luckily, Intel competitors continued to support socket 7 architecture, and they even enhanced it by creating a "Super socket 7" specification by adding support for 100 MHz bus frequency, backside L2 cache and frontside L3 cache.
NO mention of AGP, but does mention 100MHz FSB.
Mentioning of Super Socket 7 as a CPU interface, with AGP being mentioned separately (along with the PCI and ISA slots).
The first Socket 7 board with AGP (CTRL+F reveals ZERO hits when looking for the word "super")
I think some people would consider the presence of SDRAM as being a requirement for a board being Super Socket 7, but it is not the case (as there are s7 boards with only SDRAM and no 100MHz FSB....or AGP).
But these are only time-period indications. Is there any official document that reveals teh ultimate truth about what Super 7 is? Anyone know the answer to life (of Super 7)?
Lets bust this mystery once and for all 😀