As an fanatic, you could have a fantastic many issues when transferring to a brand new platform. A type of is what you may have to do about cooling. Some hardcore sorts have tons of of {dollars} invested in thermal resolution programs and {hardware}, like heatsinks and waterblocks. The power to maneuver these options over to a brand new PC platform is kind of a creature consolation.
If the most recent leak over at Benchlife is correct, it appears to be like like desktop Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake processors will likely be utilizing an 1851-contact LGA socket. That is a good few extra pins than the present LGA 1700 utilized by Alder Lake in addition to the 1718 contacts of AMD’s Socket AM5. Regardless of the elevated pincount, it looks as if the sockets are the identical dimension, though the peak that the IHS rises over the motherboard has risen by some 0.1mm.
Nonetheless, though the brand new socket appears to be barely taller, present heatsink and waterblock mounts ought to stay suitable, maybe with slight changes to screw torque. There may very well be some concern over the vastly completely different bodily configuration of elements on the “disaggregated” Meteor Lake chips; the locality of warmth era may very well be fairly completely different from Raptor Lake or Alder Lake. That is what the IHS is for, although, proper?
Previously, it was thought that Meteor Lake would possibly proceed to make use of the LGA 1700 socket, however this info, if correct, fully cancels that concept. Properly, it was most likely silly to count on Intel to make use of the identical socket for greater than two generations of CPU anyway.
