Socket C32 is a

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for their single-CPU and dual-CPU Opteron 4000 series server CPUs. It is the successor to

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for single-CPU servers and the successor for

Socket F Socket F is a CPU socket designed by Advanced Micro Devices, AMD for its Opteron line of Central processing unit, CPUs released on August 15, 2006. In 2010 Socket F was replaced by Socket C32 for entry-level servers and Socket G34 for high-end ser ...

for lower-end dual-CPU servers (High-end dual-CPU servers will use

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). Socket C32 supports two

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channels. It is based on the Socket F and uses a similar 1207-pin LGA socket but is not physically or electrically compatible with Socket F due to the use of

instead of the

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that Socket F platforms use. Socket C32 was launched on June 23, 2010 as part of the San Marino platform with the four and six-core Opteron 4100 "Lisbon" processors. Socket C32 also supports the

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-based six- and eight-core "Valencia" Opterons introduced in November 2011. Both Socket C32 and its contemporary Socket G34 were succeeded in 2017 by

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for both single- and dual-CPU servers, supporting

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-based

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CPUs, the successors to all families of Opteron CPUs.

Chipsets

Like Socket G34, it also uses the AMD SR5690, SR5670, and SR5650 chipsets. Socket C32 is also being used in the ultra-low-power Adelaide platform with the SR5650 chipset and HT1 interconnects instead of HT3.1.

References

External links

* http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9MjAzMzJ8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1 * https://web.archive.org/web/20110728150926/http://www.amdzone.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=137051&st=0&sk=t&sd=a * http://blogs.amd.com/work/2009/07/29/playing-20-questions-part-1/ * http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3673&p=5 * https://www.amd.com/us/Documents/48410B_Opteron4000_QRG_FINAL.pdf {{amdsock AMD server sockets

Chipsets

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References

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