One of the upcoming chipsets for Intel Nova Lake has been leaked online, revealing the specifications in detail.
Intel LGA 1954 Socket Q970 Chipset Motherboard Specs Spotted Online, Featuring Support for Core Ultra 400S Desktop Processors
As we approach the official launch of Intel's next-gen Nova Lake processors, several reports and leaks have been surfacing around its compatible socket. As we know from reliable reports, the Nova Lake, particularly the "S" desktop variant, will utilize the LGA 1954 socket, and according to reports, the LGA 1954 motherboards will be available in five different chipsets, including Z990, Z970, Q970, B960, and W980.
As of now, not much has been revealed about these chipsets except for some Z990 motherboards at Computex. But we just received the first-ever Q970 chipset motherboard specifications via @momomo_us, that reveals several details about the platform. The motherboard listed clearly features the LGA 1954 socket, but lists next-gen Nova Lake as "Core Ultra 300S series DT processors". It's likely a mistake, as the Nova Lake-S will be known as Core Ultra 400S processors.
This Q970 chipset motherboard will boast native support for the latest and improved DDR5 CUDIMM support with up to 128 GB capacity via 2 DIMM slots. For storage, there will be both SATA and NVMe ports, including 2x M.2 ports, where only one will be used for storage, which indicates that it's an entry-level board. For expansion slots, there will be a couple of PCIe Gen 5.0 x16 and PCIe Gen 5.0/4.0 x4 slots, and for connectivity, it will include as many as three LAN ports, supporting up to 2.5 GbE.
The Q970 chipset is specifically developed for the business and workstation segment and will feature Intel vPro support similar to the W980. However, there won't be any memory overclocking capability, and the same goes for the CPU overclocking. Other connectivity features include several display output ports such as HDMI 2.1 and DP 1.4a, and for peripherals, there will be a couple of USB 2.0 ports and several USB 3.2 ports, but it is unknown if any of these will have a USB Type-C port as well.
Nonetheless, it's good to see some progress, and we will likely receive more such information on the upcoming LGA 1954 platform, which is going to be a big upgrade over the current LGA 1851 socket.
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