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    12th Gen Intel Alder Lake-S CPU pictured from above and below

    CPU will use LGA1700 socket. This elongated chip intros big and little cores to the x86 desktop.
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    Re: 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake-S CPU pictured from above and below

    another board change for a CPU generation beyond the one that hasn't even come out!! think AMD may pick up a few more people, keeping the socket the same and updating the bios is a much better idea.

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    Re: 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake-S CPU pictured from above and below

    "You don't have to look very closely at the purported Alder Lake-S CPU to figure out a new socket will be necessary"

    This is one of two reasons I will be going AMD next time I upgrade my processor. There's no way for me to upgrade my CPU without a brand new motherboard. Which adds £150+ MB costs and sometimes £100+ RAM costs on top of the cost of a CPU.

    Intel are such a PITA with their new sockets with every new processor.

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    Re: 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake-S CPU pictured from above and below

    As above... intel really do take the pee with new boards every single cpu upgrade

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    Re: 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake-S CPU pictured from above and below

    What's the fuss about changing motherboard? If you build a decent rig, it should be able to last 6 years easily without a CPU upgrade. By that point, your motherboard will likely be ancient anyway and you might as well upgrade the entire build.

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    Re: 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake-S CPU pictured from above and below

    Quote Originally Posted by Codex View Post
    What's the fuss about changing motherboard? If you build a decent rig, it should be able to last 6 years easily without a CPU upgrade. By that point, your motherboard will likely be ancient anyway and you might as well upgrade the entire build.
    Intel probably made this decision long ago to make sure that socket is not keeping them away from architectural innovation, but at the same time they seems to stopped innovating at all.
    So in general it shouldn't it bad, but why the hell they are so bad then ...

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    Re: 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake-S CPU pictured from above and below

    Running scared - well limping along briskly more like
    Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!

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