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Slot 2 refers to the physical and electrical specification for the 330-lead edge-connector used by some of Intel's microprocessors, including the Pentium III and Xeon. The biggest difference between Slot 1 and Slot 2, though, is that the Slot 2 design allows the CPU to communicate with the L2 cache at the CPU's full clock speed. In contrast, Slot 1 only supports communication between the L2 cache and CPU at half the CPU's clock speed.

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