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 ...

One other interesting tidbit—at the top of the socket, we can see "LGA-17xx/LGA-18xx" etched into the metal. That suggests there are 100 extra pins on LGA 1700 that are not being utilized in ...

LGA 1700, which is expected to launch in early 2022, will reportedly be a lot different to what's come before. In addition to the 500 extra pins, we’ve heard that the socket will be a ...

Next year in 2021 Alder Lake has been scheduled, it's mentioned that the pin count once again ... told that the successor of the LGA 1200 socket would be LGA 1700, and that would be ...

Intel has moved the locking lugs on top of the new LGA 1851 socket featuring 151 more pins than LGA 1700, which will mean older LGA 1700 processors are both physically and functionally impossible ...

Intel is about to move on from its existing LGA 1700 socket to a new version with 151 more pins, aka LGA 1851. We know this socket will be used for its upcoming architectures for both desktop and ...

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 ...

But according to news on a Z790 refreshed chipset from Gigabyte, Intel’s “next-gen” processors will stick to the LGA 1700 socket, first introduced in 2021. Pop those champagne bottles ...