If you recently bought a motherboard with an Intel LGA 1700 socket, pay attention to the socket cover. (Assuming you completely disassemble your computer, of course.) You might be surprised to find that it is compatible with “LGA 1800” processors… that don’t officially exist yet. In the latest PCWorld YouTube video, Gordon and Adam wonder if Intel is taking a page from AMD’s book and moving to a longer socket business model.
It kind of makes sense, as Gordon broadcasts. First, because the 13th gen Intel Core processors were a little weak, and we basically figured it out now because the 14th gen Meteor Lake chip designs took a long time to develop. This would make Meteor Lake the second LGA 1700 CPU design instead of Raptor Lake, rather than the third. But don’t get too excited: he gives this rumor a 5 percent chance of actually coming true.
Intel’s two-generation CPU per socket design just performed too well. Intel’s conservative nature should be trusted more than any LGA 1800 markings on the sockets themselves - early rumors about the design of the LGA 1851 socket are already circulating. The strange discrepancy may have more to do with sockets physically fitting motherboards than processors fitting sockets. Of course, we’ll all have to wait a year (or more) to find out.
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