Socket 6 was a 486-generation CPU socket, a slightly modified version of the more common Socket 3. The Intel 486, otherwise known as the 80486 i486 or just 486 was the first tightly pipelined X86 design A CPU socket or CPU slot is a connector on a computer's Motherboard that accepts a CPU and forms an electrical interface with it Socket 3 was a type of CPU socket into which various X86 Microprocessors were inserted
Intel designed this new standard near the end of the 80486's market life,so few motherboards were produced that used it, especially as the Socket 3 standard was already sufficient. Socket 3 was a type of CPU socket into which various X86 Microprocessors were inserted
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