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Intel Documents Confirm 14th-Gen Meteor Lake CPUs are Moving to New LGA1851 Socket
Earlier this year, in fact, right at the beginning of Summer, information appeared online suggesting that the current-gen LGA 1700 socket platform utilised on the Intel Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processor series was likely only ever going to extend to these two generations. – Intel does, after all, have…
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Intel Meteor Lake To Transition to LGA 1851 Socket (Not LGA 2551 Apparently!)
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 14th-gen Meteor Lake CPUs were looking set to transition to a new socket type. – At the time of this…
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Intel Responds to Alder Lake-S ‘Warping’ Issues
Following the launch of Intel’s Alder Lake-S processor platform late last year, while the general reception for the new series has largely been positive, there has been a constant worry among the community over a potential issue that may reside within the LGA1700 socket. – For those of you unaware,…
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Noctua Confirms Near Full Compatibility with AMD’s Upcoming AM5 Socket
With the upcoming AMD Ryzen 7000 series of desktop processors expected to arrive around October this year (give or take), one of the key differences to all prior Ryzen releases to date is that this will see the transition to a brand new AM5 socket type. Yes, AMD is changing…
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AMD Confirms that AM5 is Going to be Another “Long-Lived Platform”
Following the official upcoming launch of their Ryzen 7000 processors made at CES 2022 (scheduled for release later this year), AMD confirmed that for the first time ever under the lifespan of their exceptionally popular Ryzen series, their upcoming CPUs would be transitioning to a brand new AM5 (LGA1718) socket…
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be quiet! Confirms Free CPU Cooler Upgrade Kit for Intel LGA1700
be quiet!, the German manufacturer of premium PC components, has announced that it will ensure that its CPU coolers remain compatible with the latest socket designs. Therefore, with the upcoming release of Alder Lake-S just on the horizon, they have confirmed that they will be offering a free upgrade kit…
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Intel LGA1700 Socket for Alder Lake-S/Raptor Lake-S Leaks Online
With Intel’s Alder Lake-S processors expected to arrive in November, there is clearly not just a lot of excitement surrounding a whole new processor platform but also the official consumer debut of DDR5 memory. As we’ve known for some time, however, the launch of Alder Lake-S would see Intel move…
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Intel Z690 Motherboard Image Leaks Online?
With Intel’s Alder Lake-S processors expected to be released later this year (probably around October), with a brand new socket design, there inevitably will come brand new motherboards. While the news surrounding the Z690 top-spec platform has so far remained reasonably quiet, however, following a post by BiliBili user ‘Brother…
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Renders of AMD AM5 Socket (Zen 4) Leak Online
It’s been well speculated for several months now that with the launch of the new AMD Ryzen Zen 4 processors (expected late next year), Team Red, for the first time under the Ryzen consumer name, will be transitioning itself to a brand new socket design. Known (or at least speculated)…
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Concept AMD AM5 LGA1718 CPU Image Leaks Online
With it being pretty much all but confirmed that AMD will be transitioning over to a new AM5 socket design for the launch of the Ryzen 6000 processors, we saw a pretty substantial leak regarding that earlier this week with seemingly some of the upgrades and specifications we could expect…
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Intel Alder Lake-S CPU Confirms New LGA-1700 Socket
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 motherboard socket platform. A new Intel CPU that doesn’t need a fresh motherboard? – What heresy is this?! Well,…
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Intel ‘Confirms’ Alder Lake-S Moving to New LGA1700 Socket
The release of Intel’s Alder Lake-S CPU platform is still widely presumed to be a long way off. I mean, we still need to get Rocket Lake-S out of the way and even that isn’t expected to land for around a year! Following some internal information obtained directly from Intel,…
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Scythe Confirms its 115X Coolers Will Work on Intel LGA 1200
With Intel moving to a new socket platform for their Comet Lake-S processors, many suspected that this would, aside from the fact of requiring new motherboards, also require users to buy new socket specific coolers. It did, however, seem that this was perhaps not going to be the case. Particularly…
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AMD Commits to the sTRX4 Threadripper Socket as ‘Long Term’
Last week AMD finally confirmed the upcoming release of their latest 3rd-generation Threadripper processors. Unlike the 2nd-generation, however, (that stuck with the socket platform from the original launch), the new processors would be moving to the sTRX4 platform via TRX40 motherboards. Why did they do this? Well, in simple terms,…
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How to Install an 115X Intel Processor
Every user who has built their own PC started somewhere. It might be overwhelming at first, but once you get the hang of it, PC assembly is actually quite easy. This guide serves as a basic starter help for those who have not put together their own PC before. Specifically,…
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