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Generally, as long as the socket is the same as your existing CPU, you can push that socket to the limit of CPUs that it will handle as most modern Mother Boards have flexible FSBs that cater for better CPUs and better RAM.
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- noun An opening or a cavity into which an inserted part is designed to fit: a light-bulb socket.
- noun Anatomy The concave part of a joint that receives the end of a bone.
- noun Anatomy A hollow or concavity into which a part, such as the eye, fits.
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Generally, as long as the socket is the same as your existing CPU, you can push that socket to the limit of CPUs that it will handle as most modern Mother Boards have flexible FSBs that cater for better CPUs and better RAM.
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If the socket is an IPv4 socket, the address address will be an IPv4 address.
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If the socket is an IPv6 socket, the address will be either an IPv6 or an IPv4 address.
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If the socket is an IPv6 socket, the address can be either an IPv6 or IPv4 address.
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- Middle English soket, from Anglo-Norman, spearhead, diminutive of soc, plowshare, probably of Celtic origin; see sū- in Indo-European roots.
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