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(Image credit: Noctua) Austrian firm Noctua produces cooling hardware that's simultaneously silent and super-effective at its primary purpose: removing heat from PC parts. However, despite top-tier performance, Noctua's products are also notoriously expensive, which is exactly why only one of its aluminum finstacks appears on our list of the best CPU coolers . If you've purchased a Noctua heatsink for your new CPU recently, don't despair at having to dole out for another one when Intel's next platform launches, because Noctua has just confirmed earlier speculation that its current CPU coolers for extant Intel platforms will fit just fine.
All Noctua CPU coolers that are compatible with LGA1851 and LGA1700 are also compatible with Intel’s upcoming LGA1954 socket.
No additional mounting parts are needed. Please follow the installation steps for LGA1700/LGA1851, as the installation process is identical.
LGA 1700 is, of course, the socket used by Intel's 12th- through 14th-generation Core processors, and then LGA 1851 is the socket used by the current-generation Core Ultra 200-family chips. Enthusiasts are a little down on Arrow Lake due to its mediocre gaming performance , but the multi-threaded throughput is undeniably potent. There's a refresh of Arrow Lake on the way early next year ; those chips will socket into existing boards. The LGA 1954 that Noctua is talking about is for Intel's generation-after-next parts, known as the Nova Lake platform.
If you're in the faction that has already discarded Intel as an option, you may want to keep one eye peering in Team Blue's direction, because Nova Lake is looking pretty stout. The new chips will come with new CPU architectures for both P-cores and E-cores, a redesigned interconnect, and, at least on some SKUs, an enormous 144-megabyte last-level cache , which could allow them to finally compete against AMD's 3D V-Cache CPUs in gaming.
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Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/air-cooling/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/air-cooling/noctua-confirms-that-intels-nova-lake-wont-need-new-cpu-coolers-coolers-for-lga1851-and-lga1700-are-compatible-with-the-upcoming-lga1954-socket#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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