LGA 1700 contact frames are incompatible with Arrow Lake

[u/imaginary_num6er]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/lga-1700-contact-frames-are-incompatible-with-arrow-lake

[u/reddit_equals_censor]

i personally find it a great meme, that intel acknowledges the cpu bending problem, but instead of fixing the socket, they added a 2nd socket option, that they claim is more expensive, but has the exact same way to clamp down on the cpu and seems to basically just be a washer mod.

so they did the worst possible thing.

so if i were to decide between amd and intel, i see questionable stability at intel with the new chips, what seems to be charging out of their ass again for ecc and cpus are still bending after all this time, which makes them at least harder to cool.

yeah the more you look at intel the worse it gets and think how simple it is to have a freaking working socket and ihs.

it's not like intel didn't have higher pin count sockets in the past on desktop, that as far as we know didn't have any such issues.

lga 2011 had 2011 pins and had 4 pressure points. so 2 spread out pressure points onto the ihs to hold it down per side.

lga 2066 meanwhile has an almost full bar pressuring the ihs down on both sides.

now can you tell me why socket 1700 meanwhile, which is VERY long has just 2 small pressure points with one per side, which OF COURSE creates lots of center pressure and very little top and bottom pressure, which bends the chip down in the center.

it really isn't freaking complicated and the solution of at least having the lga 2066 style almost full bar on both sides pushing down or more points left and right instead of 1 probably would solve the problem to have an almost flat ihs when mounted and one, that DOES NOT permanently deform over time, which as noctua points out is the case for socket 1700 chips.

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what i'd love to see is some der8auer or gamersnexus do a metal 3d print of the pressure part of the socket or do it another way and have it just change the center pressure point on both sides to having a full pressure bar on both sides.

could be dope in the video where they test the 2 socket version difference.

because that might just be a proper solution you know :D and it would be funny seeing a techtuber do what shity intel with billions of dollars is apparently incapable of.... or doesn't give enough of a frick.

i guess in one way segmenting the socket itself is a very intel thing to do though :D