Intel LGA Socket 1700: Lower Height, New Hole Pattern Render Existing Cooling Solutions Incompatible | TechPowerUp
 
A few details have been let out on Intel's next socket, LGA 1700, which will be the one to accept next-gen Alder Lake CPUs. Apparently, Intel's LGA 1700 - which replaces the current LGA 1200 socket) will feature a lower height (by a full [1] millimeter, helping to further reduce socket load) as well as new mounting holes positions for cooling solutions. This would effectively render existing cooling solutions incompatible with Intel's next-gen CPUs - it will be up to your cooling solution provider to offer a new cooler bracket that's compatible with the new LGA 1700 socket. If the manufacturer doesn't, it's likely you'll have to get a newer cooling solution that actually ships with the required adapter.

It has also come to light that Intel's next-gen Alder Lake-S will eschew Intel's quadrangular design for their CPUs, and instead introduce a rectangular design that's 35.5×45.0 mm. An interesting approach that places these CPUs closer in design to Intel's HEDT platforms, but likely a necessary change due to the expected new Big-Little core design in Alder Lake-S. Current information out in the wild says that Intel will keep on offering boxed cooling solutions for < 65 W TDP CPUs, while higher-performance parts will still ship absent of it. Leaks place Intel as being working on developing a new Peltier-based cooling solution for socket LGA 1700 parts as well, after they partnered with Cooler Master for the MasterLiquid ML360 Sub-Zero cooler.
 
I'm sure 3rd party cooler manufacturers will be more than happy to sell newly designed coolers. 
 

even if they just made brackets to adapt to new hole patterns - are the current AIO coolers big enough of a plate to cover the entire thing .?
Looks like the cooler companies would have to make entirely new head designs to cover it all. ?

I think it's weird that they can theoretically predict the manufacturing process years in advance but a new socket design is needed almost every new cpu release... Can't they like 'future proof' something like that?

Oh wow, ahh wonder how the new cooler gonna be fitting this new size of chipset. Hopefully, the current gen cooler can support and have enough surface area for the new chip.

firerain
Intel wants to commit sudoku!

How does one "commit" sudoku?

RIP to future CPU only upgrades! Im not sure about this move from Intel...