according to that link it would look as if you are correct about the socket type.  however before it got pulled from the laptop it came out of, which was a dell studio 17, i installed cpuz and it reported it was a socket 1156.  so what do i pay attention to?...regauerdless, it os a i3 330m cpu for sale, along with all the other items i listed, so if anyine is intrested then please make some offers and i will get the paypal arrangment going, and we can make some good deals.  thanks again for all the input so far.  i really appreciate it.