Will an original Intel heatsink/fan for an LGA1156 i7 860 work for an LGA2011 i7 3820? Got new CPU today. Getting new motherboard tomorrow. Need to know if I need to pick up a new heatsink/fan also.

We've just confirmed that Intel has made some changes to the consumer Nehalem CPU socket and it will be losing four pins, and as such, LGA 1160 is dead and it will be replaced by LGA 1156. From what ...

In context: Have you got your eye on one of Intel's Comet Lake-S desktop CPUs? If so, you'll need a new 400-series motherboard with an LGA 1200 socket, but the good news is that those with an LGA115x ...

The same 1 to 3% performance penalty for multi-GPU x8 versus x16 has been there ever since PCI-E 2.0 was invented. So since the penalty has no correlation with actual GPU power, I don't think there's ...