Intel’s upcoming LGA1200 mainstream desktop socket (aka socket H5), seems to be cooler-compatible with older LGA115x sockets. This would imply any CPU cooler appropriate with sockets LGA1156, LGA1155, LGA1150, and LGA1151, needs to be mechanically appropriate with LGA1200. You’d nonetheless want to make sure the cooler has sufficient thermal capability to chill a number of the increased TDP SKUs such because the range-topping Core i9-10900Ok.
Comparative mechanical drawings of LGA1200 and LGA1151 have been posted by momomo_us and eUUUK50, which present the LGA1200 bundle to have the identical dimensions because the older socket. An image of the land-grid of an LGA1200 bundle additionally leaked to the net, exhibiting how Intel utilized empty bits of the fiberglass substrate to cram within the further 49 pins, with out altering the scale of the contacts. The LGA1200 socket debuts with Intel’s 10th technology Core “Comet Lake” desktop processors and motherboards primarily based on the corporate’s 400-series chipsets. Intel is anticipated to launch these processors by Q2-2020.
