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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

be quiet!, the German manufacturer for premium PC components, ensures that its CPU coolers remain compatible with the latest CPU sockets. Therefore, the company will be offering a free upgrade kit for ...

Intel is set to revise its CPU architecture and introduce a new socket type; however, there are indications that the current LGA 1700 platform may continue to be supported with new CPUs. The ...

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 ...

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 ...