LATEST INTEL MOTHERBOARD

Pentium 4 and Athlon XP are the two main choices for CPUs. Motherboard vendors sometimes list their boards by the type of socket that accommodates the CPU. For example:

Socket 478 - for older Pentium and Celeron processors
Socket 754 - for AMD Sempron and some AMD Athlon processors
Socket 939 - for newer and faster AMD Athlon processors
Socket A - for older AMD Athlon processors
Currently socket arrangements are often named after the number of pins in the Pin Grid Array (PGA). The newest Intel CPU does not have a PGA. It has a Land Grid Array (LGA), also known as Socket T. A LGA is different from a PGA in that the pins are actually part of the socket and not the CPU. If you want to use one of the new multi-core chips made by Intel or AMD, choose a motherboard with the correct socket for those chips. CPUs simply will not fit into sockets that do not match their PGA.