Alder Lake won't support today's CPU coolers - This new socket needs new mounts

[WYP]

Intel's offering some significant design improvements, but those improvements have a cost...



Read more about Intel's Alder Lake CPUs requiring new coolers.

 

[looz]

Looks to be a thinner PCB as well. Gotta be a bit careful when delidding.

 

[Warchild]

Looks to be a thinner PCB as well. Gotta be a bit careful when delidding.

Thinner pcb is risky. We all know how bad skylake went when users were seeing damage and poor performance. I guess we will not know until release.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

I imagine many will be doing a complete re-build with Alder Lake as it's Intel's first true new architecture in years.