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 ...

Is this oblong chip the future of Intel's desktop CPUs? Two renowned leakers have tweeted about a potential Intel LGA 1700 socket, a stretched out socket that would mark a departure from Intel's tried ...

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 ...

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 ...

What socket do Intel 12th Gen CPUs use? Best answer: Intel's 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" processors (CPU) use a new LGA 1700 socket. This is a replacement for the previous LGA 1200 socket that was used ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Intel introduced the LGA 1700 platform with their Alder Lake-S processors late last year, one of their key comments on the new socket design was that they fully intended to retain it for at least ...

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 ...