"The heatsink mounting on Intel's new LGA 1200 (code name Comet Lake S) is identical to all LGA115x sockets (LGA 1150, LGA 1151, LGA 1155, LGA 1156," the company wrote on its FAQ page.

For example, a new Ryzen 5 3600X will require an AM4 motherboard, while an Intel Core i5-9600K will need one with LGA 1151. You may like Here's everything we know so far about all five Z2 handheld ...

LGA 1200 was designed as a replacement for the LGA 1151 (also known as Socket H4). LGA 1200 has 1200 protruding pins to make contact with the pads on the processor.

Skylake-S needs a new socket, new chipset and new motherboard. The socket is called LGA 1151 and has a single pin more than Haswell, the company’s current generation Core architecture.

LGA 1151 Intel Core i7-6700K Greg Mombert/Digital Trends. LGA 1151 was released 2015, ... Socket LGA 1150 is designed to accommodate the Haswell (fourth-gen Intel Core) processors.

The AM4 socket isn’t as old as Intel’s now-retired LGA 1151. There’s still life left in it. How much is the question. It’s possible that AMD could stick with the same socket for as long as ...

Despite the switchover to LGA 1851, the manual says it supports both socket types. The cooler in question is the Azza Cube 360 AIO, which was flagged by Techspot.

Gigabyte Tease LGA-3647 Skylake-E Socket Server at Computex ... the size away and we notice right away that it’s quite a bit bigger than the average LGA 1151 one or even the LGA 2011 socket.

Intel has only just revealed its Comet Lake 10th-gen desktop processors, which require a new Z490 motherboard, switching to the LGA 1200 socket. However, those boards could be swiftly cast aside ...

The neat thing about Kaby Lake is that it uses the same LGA 1151 socket as existing Skylake processors. In most cases a UEFI/BIOS update will be required to recognize the new CPUs.

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 ...