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 ...

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 ...

Upgrading your motherboard is never a painless affair. Ripping out the guts of your build and swapping them out with all-new parts is time-consuming, and it's also expensive when a new socket is ...

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 ...

Thermaltake has been working hard to fulfill users’ demanding needs for high-end cooling performance and has announced that a total of 47 of its cooling products now support the new Intel LGA 1700 ...

Forward-looking: It seems there's nothing Intel loves more than launching new sockets. With LGA 1200 only recently released alongside the 10th-gen Comet Lake chips, more evidence has emerged that the ...

With Rocket Lake-S set to release in early 2021, we already have pretty firm confirmation that Intel will be sticking (somewhat surprisingly some may think) with their current Comet Lake-S LGA-1200 ...

As an enthusiast, you have a great many concerns when moving to a new platform. One of those is what you'll need to do about cooling. Some hardcore types have hundreds of dollars invested in thermal ...

AZZA's new cooler manuals suggest that cross-compatibility between LGA 1700 and LGA 1851 cooling solutions is a thing. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Leaker @momomo_us recently posted an image showing a CPU socket cover marked for LGA-18xx, although since it's also marked with LGA-17xx, it's likely that both sockets might end up being closely ...

Intel's 12th gen CPU family dubbed 'Alder Lake' launch seems fast approaching. When it comes to its desktop lineup called Alder Lake-S, we already have the first compatible DDR5 kit from TEAMGROUP ...