30 Aug
2007
30 Aug
'07
4:17 p.m.
Quux pawn2be.wild@yahoo.de wrote:
there are SPI sockets out there in industry, but less common & probably pricey. plcc32 is much more commonplace.
but then soldering 8 contacts might seem less risky to do manually compared with 32 contacts.
the 1.0 pcb layout has solder pads for plcc as well as SPI (located inside of plcc ). is this still the case with 2.0 pcb revisions ?
From the picture it looks like there is only one set of pads. Sure 8
contacts seem easier to solder, but I like the idea of having one factory bios stuffed away in a safe place, away from the mobo and that seems easier to achieve with a socket. :)
/Rasmus