SOCKET STOATA little room to build.
Choose the pieces. Find the friction.
Give your next build a place to begin.
Ready to explore. All parts and prices are educational examples.
01.THE PLATFORM EFFECT
The fastest part
isn’t the whole story.
A processor chooses a socket. A socket narrows the board. The board decides which memory belongs. The price on one box never tells the whole story.
Try the Den 6 processor in your current build. Keep the warnings visible, then change the board and memory. Notice how a small decision travels through the machine.
Leave yourself a paper trail.
Save a version before you change your mind. On reload, the workbench starts with default parts; use Restore to open a saved build.
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Educational catalog · September 9, 2026
Socket Stoat designs its own fictional parts to make compatibility constraints easy to reproduce. Names, dimensions, capacities and prices are example data, not manufacturer specifications or live offers. There are no benchmark results.
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Before buying real hardware, check the exact product manuals and CPU support list. Useful starting points: AMD processor documentation and NVIDIA graphics specifications. These links do not source our fictional catalog.