LGA 1954 is a land grid array CPU socket designed by Intel for Nova Lake-S desktop processors, which will be released in Q1 2027.
Nova Lake chipsets (900 series)
B960 Z970 Z990 Q970 W980 Overclocking CPU colspan="2" colspan="2" Memory colspan="3" CPU support Nova Lake Memory capacity Up to 256 GB Maximum DIMM slots 4 ECC memory colspan="4" Maximum USB 2.0 ports colspan="5" USB 3.2 ports configuration Up to 6 Up to 10 Up to 8 Up to 10 Gen 2 Up to 4 Up to 10 Up to 8 Up to 10 Up to 2 Up to 5 Up to 4 Up to 5 TB4/USB4 ports 1 2 Maximum SATA 3.0 ports 4 8 Processor PCI Express configuration 5.0 1×16 1×16 or 2×8 5.0(for M.2) 1×4 1×8 or 2×4 PCH PCI Express configuration 5.0 colspan="2" 12 8 12 4.0 14 12 Independent display support (digital ports/pipes) 4 Integrated wireless colspan="5" PCIe RAID support colspan="2" colspan="3" SATA RAID support colspan="5" Intel Smart Sound technology colspan="5" Intel Active Management, Trusted Execution and vPro technology colspan="3" colspan="2" Chipset TDP Release date Q1 2027
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