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based motherboards, the sockets have hundreds of tiny pins that line up with

contacts on the bottom of the CPU (see Figure 3-34). Intel CPUs use a land

grid array (LGA) package for socketed CPUs, where the underside of the

CPU has hundreds of contact points that line up with the socket pins.

Figure 3-34 Intel-based socket with pins

AMD CPUs have the pins (see Figure 3-35); the sockets have holes. The

pins on the AMD pin grid array (PGA) CPUs align with the holes in the

sockets.

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