Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. This socket is physically similar to, yet different from the Socket 478. The Socket 479 has a different electrical pin-arrangement from Socket 478, making it impossible to use a Pentium M in a normal 478 board although the Pentium M fits mechanically in a Socket 478. For this reaso ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. This socket is physically similar to, yet different from the Socket 478. The Socket 479 has a different electrical pin-arrangement from Socket 478, making it impossible to use a Pentium M in a normal 478 board although the Pentium M fits mechanically in a Socket 478. For this reason manufacturers like Asus have made drop-in boards (e.g. CT-479) which let you use Socket 479 processors. Chipsets which employ this socket for the Pentium M are the Intel 855GM/GME/PM and Intel 915GM/GMS/PM. While the Intel 855GME chipset supports all Pentium M CPU's, the Intel 855GM chipset does not officially support 90 nm 2MB L2 cache (Dothan core) models (even though it works, it only works at 400FSB, some 3rd party/user was able to overclock the FSB on 855GM/GME/PM to support 533FSB Dothan Core)