Thermalright LGA1700-BCF Intel 12th CPU Bending Corrector Frame
Thermalright is far from being an unknown brand in the hardware and cooler business, and the Taiwanese company also has a potential solution for the too flexible LGA1700 socket in its range. In this country, you can get the LGA1700-BCF via various e-commerce platforms like Aliexpress for 5-10 Euros including shipping from Asia. There are also 4 different anodized colors in blue, red, black and silver to choose from.
The frame itself has a rather unusual design with its imprints and its milled edge as a visual contrast to the otherwise very dominant anodized color. After mounting the cooler, the looks should take a back seat, but “gamers” have already spent more money for less.
At the bottom of the frame, there are additional black spacers – similar to the stock ILM – that make contact with the motherboard’s PCB during assembly and should thus eliminate the screws’ torque as a variable.
Checking the corner build height, the Thermalright Frame also makes a solid impression in terms of build quality with less than 0.02 mm difference, including the glued-on spacers.
The imprint pattern of the thermal paste also looks promising with a consistent vertical pressure pattern and only a slight horizontal difference, with all frames on this motherboard showing this to a small degree. For those interested in more scientific data on the pressure distribution of the cooler and thermal paste in conjunction with the Thermalright LGA1700-BCF, I can recommend Gamers’ Nexus, who recently posted an interesting video on this very topic.
Both in terms of RAM stability and temperature savings in our tests, the Thermalright Frame can keep its promises. Again, you gain 4-5 °C compared to the Intel stock ILM and the DDR5-7000 overclock is solid again after a one-time retraining. Only the frame has the decisive advantage that you can simply hand-tighten the screws, which corresponds to about 0.12 Nm, and then it just works. Torque rates and angle markings Adee!
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