New CPU sockets force motherboard makers to keep up ... which Asus did when they brought PCIe 4.0 support to Zen 2 CPUs years ...

It's a nice eye candy, but users won't appreciate it once they've installed a CPU cooler over the socket or removed it ... There's at least one M.2 PCIe 5.0 slot with a huge passive heatsink.

KR1280V3 1U-2 Socket Server with AMD EPYC™ 9965, Doubles I/O Performance for Efficient LLM Training, Accelerating Diverse AI ...

The bulk of Intel's 'Granite Rapids' family of Xeon 6 processors has arrived, with core counts ranging from 4 to 86.

Designed for maximum efficiency in high-performance AI and HPC environments, it supports: Up to 12 front-access 2 ... CPU interconnect bandwidth, memory bandwidth, and overall capacity Dual-socket ...