The pins lined up densely on the back of a CPU, like a bed of nails, are a familiar sight in photos of old CPUs. However, when you flip over an LGA-type CPU, you see a series of flat, gold contact ...

A bit of controversy surrounded Intel's LGA 1700 socket, which it used for Alder Lake and Raptor Lake CPUs. In some builds, the retention mechanism was found to apply uneven pressure to the CPU, ...