Yes, as others have said, a Socket 5 CPU will fit in a Socket 7 motherboard.<BR><BR>There is one detail you need to be aware of: a lot of more recent Socket 7/Super 7 boards do not support the 50 ...

Intel sockets are typically named for the number of pins that they have, so a computer with a Socket 2011 CPU connection holds a 2011-pin CPU. AMD sockets are typically sequentially numbered, with ...

AMD announced the new AM5 socket back in January, but didn’t disclose any new features. That wasn’t because there weren’t many new features to talk about, thankfully, as AM5 has plenty of them.

Part of the reason for the increasing pin count is down to adding support for the latest technologies, such as DDR5 and PCIe 5.0—for reference, the current AM4 socket has 1,331 pin slots.

Those processors will slip into a socket with 4,094 pins. Likewise, AMD's consumer-oriented enthusiasts processors based on Ryzen will also feature a socket with 4,094 pins dubbed SP3r2.

SP5 socket is a massive 7.5 cm high and 7.2 cm wide, making it suitable for next-generation Zen4 data-center CPUs. The EPYC 7004 series, codenamed Genoa, will have up to 96 cores, while Bergamo ...