Decenta's listing 428 names an LGA-1954 board for Nova Lake-S, and @wxnod put the Q970/B960 pair into the public record. The page is industrial, not consumer: green PCB, blue DDR5 slots, multiple PCIe slots, and a legacy PCI slot. It also carries an M.2 E-key 2230 slot for optional WIFI 7 and Bluetooth 6, and it supports 256GB of DDR5 memory, four 64GB modules, at DDR5-6400 speeds.

ComputerBase filed the same launch, but this packet does not show a figure it added or a figure it got wrong. The useful addition here is the Decenta URL, not a second headline, and that link lets the desk check the chipset split instead of repeating the spotted-board claim. The packet also does not show a consumer SKU, so the other desk's value is the link, not a competing claim.

The judgment is that the board proves platform readiness, not CPU performance. Q970 gets PCIe 5.0 on more slots and a PCIe 4.0 second M.2, while B960 stays at PCIe 4.0 on x4 slots and drops the second M.2 to SATA. The 74 TOPS NPU and 3rd Generation Intel Xe are listed as Nova Lake-S support, but the board cannot measure them; for an industrial buyer, the Q970 variant is the one that preserves expansion headroom, and for a fab-side schedule, the board shows the socket and chipset are already being fitted before the January CPU window.

What is still unmeasured is the CPU itself: no SKU, no TDP, no process node, no price, and no exact date beyond January. The listing also leaves out a consumer board, a die shot, and any benchmark that would make the NPU number more than a spec-sheet claim.

The board proves platform readiness, not CPU performance. The Q970 variant preserves expansion headroom, while the B960 variant constrains the second M.2 to SATA.

The document leaves out the CPU SKU, TDP, process node, price, exact launch date, consumer board, die shot, and benchmark.

The Decenta listing validates LGA-1954 board readiness and the Q970/B960 split, but it does not validate Nova Lake-S silicon. Q970 keeps PCIe 5.0 expansion and a PCIe 4.0 second M.2; B960 caps x4 slots at PCIe 4.0 and limits the second M.2 to SATA.