A computing system incorporating an integrated circuit computer chip manufactured by Advanced Micro Devices.
AMD E-Series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) platform, formerly codenamed "Brazos 2.0", is a notebook processor platform.
No, both manufacturers use different shipsets.
That would go on a socket-7 motherboard. Socket-7 is the same platform as what was used for the original Pentium processor. That was out around the time that Windows 95 and Windows 98 were popular.
The main two manufacturers are INTEL and AMD. The 4th quoter results of 2008: INTEL - 80.96% AMD - 10.6%
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'Best' is a loaded term. Do you want the motherboard with the most features, the fastest stock, the most overclockable, do you want a 'desktop' or 'sever' motherbaord, etc.? At the moment, the "Intel LGA1366 Platform/Intel X58 chipset" is the top of the line motherboards for Intel CPUs, and "AM2+/ATI 790FX chipset" for AMD. This will chance quickly, as computer hardware always does. AMD vs Intel, Intel at the moment has the fastest CPUs, but AMD tends to be better on price/performance.
Super Socket 7 is a slight enhancement of the Socket 7 platform created by AMD and VIA after Intel abandoned the platform. The socket itself is not distinctive; it is the chipsets used with it that set it apart from Socket 7 boards. Namely, Super Socket 7 boards run at a faster FSB speed than ones with Intel chipsets. Intel stopped at 66 MHz, but AMD and VIA pushed it up to 100 MHz.
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You can use an amd sempron or an amd athlon II with an am3 socket, but when am3 was released it was meant to be used with the amd phenom line of CPUs. You can use all three: amd sempron, amd athlon II & amd phenom.
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