Old water cooler on a new socket type?

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I'm just wondering if I buy a water cooler now, will the mounting hardware that works on LGA 1150 work on say an LGA 1151 socket when Skylake comes out? I don't really want to buy a water cooler to have to replace it in a year and a half just because of mounting hardware.

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I'm sure with most companies you buy from, like corsair, they'll eventually release an additional part that'll be compatible that'll be available on their site.

For instance, when I was installing the Corsair H105 on my friend's $2k build, the Intel socket backplate had additional settings for each of the past intel sockets.

You can then infer from there they'll probably update their radiators and such to compensate for the new socket type, as well as release adapter backplates and such for the old models.
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I'm sure with most companies you buy from, like corsair, they'll eventually release an additional part that'll be compatible that'll be available on their site.

For instance, when I was installing the Corsair H105 on my friend's $2k build, the Intel socket backplate had additional settings for each of the past intel sockets.

You can then infer from there they'll probably update their radiators and such to compensate for the new socket type, as well as release adapter backplates and such for the old models.
 
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That makes sense. Haven't some of the physical dimensions for hardware been the same across generations for certain cases, like 2011 and 2011-v3? I might be off there.
 
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If there is a physical difference that changes mounting hardware, most companies with half decent customer support would probably ship the new mounting hardware to you.
Corsairs water blocks are all the same for example, its just the mounting hardware so it would be easy to adapt it.
Noctua does similar with its air coolers, they will ship LGA 2011 v3 hardware upon request.
 
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A good chance that 1151 will be the same size as 1150(hole spacing).

1156, 1155 and 1150 are all using the same hole spacing so even cooler bought when 1366 and 1156 came out should still work on 1155 and 1150.

And as the above user says, brackets tend to be released.
 
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there's slight differences across some of the intel sockets, not too sure about which ones in detail. Basically what it amounts to, you just click the notches into the right setting for the backplate, and the manual will show what positions of the notches correspond to what Intel socket. It's pretty simple actually
 
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