Hawk 370 Slotket Breathes New Life Into Intel’s Legendary 440BX Chipset
If you're an enthusiast of a certain age, you may recall that there was a weird diversion between the Socket 7 platform used by the original Pentium and the Socket 370 platform used by the Pentium III. That diversion was Slot 1, an experiment by Intel done for both technical and business reasons. Interestingly, the Slot 1 platform and the Socket 370 platform are not fundamentally different, and in fact use the same chipsets and firmware. Because of this, you can use what is called a "slotket" to install a Socket 370 processor into a Slot 1 motherboard.
This has been done since these platforms were cutting-edge; it's nothing new. What's exciting is that German YouTuber Bits und Bolts, whose work we have featured on the site before, has created a fully custom design for a new type of slotket that supports not only standard Pentium III processors, but...
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