Why it matters: Buying a new motherboard usually means building a new PC from scratch, as new socket requirements necessitate numerous new components. However, recently released CPU coolers have ...

Intel's LGA 1851 socket is waiting in the wings to replace LGA 1700, used on both Alder and Raptor Lake platforms. It'll get a new lease on life soon with the upcoming Raptor Lake refresh, but its ...

A leak of the Momomo_US and Komachi_Ensaka accounts show that the successor of the LGA 1200 socket will be LGA 1700, and that would be the Alder Lake-S platform, which in addition to a new socket will ...

If you’ve bought a motherboard with an Intel LGA 1700 socket lately, take a look at the socket cover. (Assuming you’re completely disassembling your PC, of course.) You might be surprised to find that ...

Intel's Alder Lake-S will introduce the oblong LGA 1700 socket to match the new elongated chip packages introduced with the processor family. The LGA 1200 predecessor is 37.5mm square, while the ...

Spares for socket LGA 1700 / LGA 1800 are already selling online on a Chinese retailer website called Taobao. LGA 1700 is the next-gen socket for Intel's 12th gen desktop Alder Lake-S processors.

Intel's upcoming Alder Lake CPUs are still a few weeks away from launching, presumably, but there is plenty of related hardware in the wild to keep the leaks flowing. The latest one is an actual photo ...

Late last week, information appeared online suggesting that (surprise surprise) Intel was likely going to welch on its promise to retain LGA 1700 for three processor generations and that their ...

Much has been made of next-generation platforms on the horizon from AMD and Intel. Both are planning to embrace DDR5 memory, the former with its Zen 4 platform and the latter with Alder Lake-S. Along ...

In announcing the news XPG (Adata) has said: “XPG, today announces free LGA 1700 mounting kit for existing All In One liquid coolers LEVANTE 240 and LEVANTE 360’s customers free of charge, offering ...

They try a few different washer thicknesses to raise the ILM frame and reduce/redistribute pressure, they find 1.0mm thick ones work best, and end up with a healthy 5C (actually 5.76C) improvement at ...