Thanks to ASRock for supplying these review samples!
With Intel’s LGA1851 purported to be launching later this year, the last designs based on the LGA1700 platform are making their way on to the market. Supporting “Alder Lake” 12th gen, “Raptor Lake” 13th and “Raptor Lake Refresh” 14th generation Intel CPUs, there are a bunch of processors for these late boards, ignoring the small refresh that is 14th gen. Motherboard vendor CPU support lists for the 700 chipset boards are quite the novel!
A speculative note as an aside – this change of socket is likely to be the death sentence for Intel’s “Core ix” branding, with LGA1851 “Arrow Lake” processors carrying the new “Core Ultra” branding. Folks in the know are suggesting that the next high end CPU will be branded “Core Ultra 285K” for example. I expect all and sundry to be confused, again, by a Silicon Slinger’s brand names – Intel, AMD and NVIDIA all pull these same rebrands from time to time.
Whilst 14th gen may have been an...
