Socket 604 is a 604-pin

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socket designed to interface an Intel's

Xeon Xeon ( ) is a brand of x86 microprocessors designed, manufactured, and marketed by Intel, targeted at the non-consumer workstation, server, and embedded system markets. It was introduced in June 1998. Xeon processors are based on the same arc ...

processor to the rest of the computer. It provides both an electrical interface as well as physical support. This socket is designed to support a heatsink. Launched at November 18, 2002, over the year after

Socket 603 Socket 603 is a motherboard socket for Intel's Xeon processor. Technical specifications Socket 603 was designed by Intel as a zero insertion force socket intended for workstations and server platforms. It contains 603 contacts arrayed in a grid ...

, it was originally used to accommodate most Xeons introduced at the time. It was succeeded by

LGA 771 LGA 771, also known as ''Socket J'', is a CPU interface introduced by Intel in 2006. It is used in Intel Core microarchitecture and NetBurst microarchitecture(Dempsey) based DP-capable server processors, the Dual-Core Xeon is codenamed Dempsey ...

in 2006 for low- and mid-end server ranges, but still staying in high-end server range, including 4- and 8-processor configurations, in which the successor -

LGA 1567 LGA 1567 or Socket LS, is a CPU socket used for the high-end server segment. It has 1567 protruding pins to make contact with the pads on the processor. It supports Intel Nehalem (microarchitecture), Nehalem, codenamed Beckton (microprocessor), Be ...

- appeared in 2010. At the time,

LGA 1366 LGA 1366 (land grid array 1366), also known as Socket B, is an Intel CPU socket. This socket supersedes Intel's LGA 775 (Socket T) in the high-end and performance desktop segments. It also replaces the server-oriented LGA 771 (Socket J) in the e ...

was the primary socket for Xeons in low- and mid-end server ranges, with cheaper configurations still sometimes using LGA 771 socket. The socket had an unusually long life span, lasting 9 years (2 years longer than consumer-grade

LGA 775 LGA 775 (land grid array 775), also known as Socket T, is an Intel desktop CPU socket. Unlike PGA CPU sockets, such as its predecessor Socket 478, LGA 775 has no socket holes; instead, it has 775 protruding pins which touch contact points on the ...

) until the last processors supporting it ceased production in the 3rd quarter of 2011.

Technical specifications

Socket 604 was designed by Intel as a

zero insertion force Zero insertion force (ZIF) is a type of IC socket or electrical connector that requires very little (but not literally zero) force for insertion. With a ZIF socket, before the IC is inserted, a lever or slider on the side of the socket is mo ...

socket intended for workstations and server platforms. While the socket contains 604 pins, it only has 603 electrical contacts, the last being a dummy pin. Each contact has a 1.27mm pitch with regular pin array, to mate with a 604-pin processor package. Socket 604 processors utilize a bus speed of either 400, 533, 667, 800, or 1066

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and were manufactured in either a 130, 90, 65 or 45 nm process. Socket 604 processors cannot be inserted into

designed motherboards due to one additional pin being present, but Socket 603 processors can be inserted into Socket 604 designed motherboards, since the extra pin slot does not do anything for a 603 CPU. Socket 604 processors range from 1.60 GHz through 3.80 GHz, with the higher clock rates only found among older, slower

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-based Xeons. The following

Intel Xeon chipsets Around the time that the Pentium III processor was introduced, Intel's Xeon line diverged from its line of desktop processors, which at the time was using the Pentium branding. The divergence was implemented by using different sockets; since then, ...

used Socket 604: * Intel E7205 * Intel E7210 Canterwood-ES * Intel 7300 * Intel E7320 * Intel E7500 * Intel E7501 * Intel E7505 * Intel E7520 * Intel E7525 Late Socket 604 "revivals": * Intel Xeon 7300 (Quadcore Core2-based "Xeon Tigerton" since September 6, 2007) * Intel Xeon 7400 (Quad-/Hexacore Penryn-based "Xeon Dunnington" since September 15, 2008).

References

External links

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Socket 604 Socket 604 is a 604-pin microprocessor socket designed to interface an Intel's Xeon processor to the rest of the computer. It provides both an electrical interface as well as physical support. This socket is designed to support a heatsink. Launch ...

Technical specifications

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