The latest AIO cooler from Thermaltake will work with Intel's upcoming LGA 1954 platform, as spotted on the official website.
Thermaltake Lists LGA 1954 as a Compatible Socket for MINECUBE 360 Ultra ARGB Sync AIO Cooler, Confirming Support for Intel Nova Lake
Popular cooler and PC case maker, Thermaltake, has officially listed the Intel LGA 1954 socket as a compatible platform for one of its latest AIO coolers. Thermaltake's MINECUBE 360 Ultra ARGB Sync, which was showcased at Computex this year, lists the LGA 1954 on its compatibility list, which confirms that the cooler won't just be compatible with the LGA 1851 socket, but will also support the Intel Nova Lake CPUs when they come out.
According to previous reports, we knew that the LGA 1954 socket would have the same dimensions as the LGA 1851, i.e., 45mm x 37.5mm, which is shared by both LGA 1851 and LGA 1700. This makes compatibility with Intel Nova Lake almost guaranteed with the existing LGA 1851 and even LGA 1700 coolers. Cooler manufacturers "may" need to release updated brackets for Nova Lake CPUs, depending on the CPU hotspot, but this won't be a difficult task, and manufacturers won't have to redesign their coolers for Nova Lake.
The leaker @momomo_us also showed the Intel Installation Guide for installing the MINECUBE 360 Ultra ARGB AIO Cooler, which shows the cooler using the same bracket for the LGA 1851 and LGA 1954 sockets, which means that cooler makers won't necessarily have to make a new bracket for the upcoming Intel platform.
This is good news since Intel has been changing the socket size for several generations before LGA 1700, which made upgrades difficult. Intel Nova Lake is still roughly a year away from now, but will be one of the first to bring significant upgrade in specs such as core count. Nova Lake will also be the first CPU family expected to feature dual architectures for its iGPU, i.e., Xe3 and Xe4. But that's not all, it's also bringing a newer NPU6, which will succeed NPU5 on the upcoming Panther Lake series for improved AI capabilities.
News Source: Thermaltake
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