Any CPU listed as LGA (“Land Grid Array”) will not have pins; instead, the pins will be in the motherboard socket. Chips listed as PGA (“Pin Grid Array”) do have pins, and drop into a ...

Upgrading CPUs in office computers makes a great deal of sense given that while CPU technology has advanced greatly, other components live longer lives before they become obsolete. Upgrading poses ...

AM4 motherboards use a PGA socket, which doesn’t have pins. Instead, you’ll find the pins on the CPU. All AM4 boards are designed this way, regardless of their chipset, so A320, B350 ...

A large window in the socket allows decoupling capacitors to be placed beneath the processor. A removable vacuum plate is available for automated placement. The 370-pin PGA socket with tin plated ...

Officially confirmed as AM4, this new socket will combine the CPU and APU lineups for AMD ... like Intel does and if AM4 will still be PGA.

They say the new socket design will be LGA-1718—the ... AMD has long stuck with a pin grid array (PGA) for its CPU packaging. You could go all the way back to the original Athlon processors ...