Four of these link the CPU and chipset, and four more are for a dedicated M.2 NVMe slot for the new (and fast) NVMe SSDs—that's part of why AM4 has more pins than Intel's LGA1151.

Intel's best ever gaming CPU is here and it's awesomely fast in other tasks too ... showing diagrams of the pin assignment changes between LGA1151 and the new so-called LGA1151-V2 sockets.

Intel has announced it's latest round of desktop processors and a new chipset for its LGA1151 CPU socket. Codenamed Kaby Lake, the new CPUs include the Core i7-7700K, Core i5-7600K - both with ...

While Intel‘s Coffee Lake CPUs are known to require new Z370 chipset motherboards, many fans on existing LGA1151 Kabylake held hope that it will be backwards compatible.That hope was dashed when ...

Skylake CPUs use a new LGA1151 socket that is, of course, incompatible with LGA1150 motherboards used for Haswell and Broadwell. ... It’s too bad the actual CPU doesn’t look like this. 7.