To prevent you from trying to fit an LGA 1700 chip into the socket, though, notches in the plastic surround are in a different location. Some of the extra pins are going to be for PCI Express ...

as well as how to fix bent motherboard socket pins if you have an LGA motherboard. Bent socket pins are one of the main reasons for motherboard returns, and if you mash a bunch of pins ...

When Intel names a socket LGA XXXX, such as the LGA 1700 that Raptor Lake requires, the number refers to the number of pins. In other words, LGA 1700 has 1700 pins. Pin count is not directly ...

Intel has continually updated its LGA socket over the years, adding more pins and different designs to expand functionality. Here’s everything you need to know about Intel’s LGA CPU sockets.

It's just all too easy with a pin grid array (PGA) design. That could all be changing with the next shift in socket for team red, however, as the latest leaks suggest a land grid array (LGA ...

as without further clarification "LGA-17xx" could also have referred to AMD's AM5 socket, which was leaked to have 1718 pins as part of the switch from a PGA to an LGA setup. Rumors have also ...

EAGAN, MN—Ironwood Electronics recently introduced a new LGA socket addressing high performance requirements for 1.016mm pitch devices—SBT-LGA-9019. The contactor is a stamped spring pin ...

Ironwood Electronics' latest LGA socket addresses high-performance requirements for 0.52mm pitch LGA104 – CBT-LGA-5031. The contactor is a stamped spring pin with 14 gram actuation force per pin ...

WCCFTech also reports that the socket will be sporting the LGA 1718 pin design, meaning 1,718 pins on the motherboard correspond to the equal number of contacts on the processor itself.

AMD has already confirmed that the Zen 4 and RDNA 3 architectures should only hit the market in 2022, however, today we already had a preview of the AMD AM5 processor socket with LGA 1718 pin design.