Hi Everyone, My boss and I are trying to find out if there is any type of motherboard or tester in which you can test multiple processors. We have computers that come in here everyday and we have no way of testing the processors if the motherboard is bad all we can do is tell the customer that the processor may also be bad. We were wanting to find out if there are any motherboard testers out there. Right now we are only able to test processors if we have the motherboard with the same socket. We were hoping that there would be some kind of a motherboard with an interchangeable processor socket of some sort. If anyone knows of any such thing please let me know. Thank you all for your help. Joe Kemco IT Professional

I'm sorry but there is no such board with a lot of different sockets because you would need a different chipset for all those sockets. There are a few strange boards out there that allow two different sockets. I saw one Athlon64 board that had both socket 754 and socket 939 as hey both use the same chipsets. I'm not sure but it may have been an Albatron board. Elitegroup also has a really strange one. Normally it's a socket 775 board with an SIS chipset but it has an additional slot that looks a lot like a second pci express. There you can plug an add-on card which allows you to use a athlon64 instead of the socket 775. On that add-on card is the athlon64 socket, another SIS chipset that works with the same southbridge as the one for the socket 775 and DDR1 Ram slots to replace the DDR2 slots for the socket 775. I'm not sure if the socket on that card is 754 or 939 but maybe you already get cards for both sockets. Sorry but I don't know the exact name of that so you have to check for yourself on the elitegroup site. For the older sockets you should check www.powerleap.com because they have all sorts of different adapters. For example an adapter to use socket370 cpus on an old slot1 board or a socket 423 to 478 adapter. They also have compatibility charts so you can choose a board that adapter should fit at! I hope that helps at least a little bit! For example I run a Celeron 733MHz at up to 1232MHz on my old Asus P2B slot1 board with a MSI slot1 to FCPGA socket 370 adapter and replace an old Pentium2 350MHz with that. That's now some sort of multimedia system for watching DVD and TV and so on. But if you do this better use the Powerleap adapter because that also allows FCPGA2 socket 370 cpus!