TECH NEWS – Alder Lake motherboards will be relatively inexpensive, but not here, as computer parts are always much more expensive.
The first Intel B660 and H610 motherboards have been leaked, but we’ve been hearing prices lately. The Intel 600 Series has several mainstream and budget solutions, as the trio of H670, B660 and H610 is a pretty big deal. The H670s will be a little late, but the B660 and H610 “boards” won’t have to wait much longer. Motherboards have already begun listing on Taobao, a Chinese online storefront. These are separate sellers, so the motherboards can reach the stores at an even cheaper price than the price they indicate, but the weak forint, inflation and 27% VAT absorb this price difference in a matter of seconds…
Motherboards have emerged from Gigabyte and ASRock. The cheapest at the moment is the H610M-HDV / M.2, which is 549 renminbi, or $ 86, and $ 28,100 in HUF. slot, 1 PCIe x16, 2 PCIe x1, and only one heatsink, also on the H610 PCH. Basic ports and IO, nothing more, but pricing is not bad. It will be available in Hungary from maybe 30 thousand forints.
Then the ASRock B660M-HDV for $ 639, $ 100, is approx. It turned up for 32,700 forints. It’s similar to the H610M-HDV, but here’s an extra Hyper M.2 slot and more USB ports. The price difference is understandable due to the stronger chipset and a few extra features. Then the B660M PRO RS and B660M-HDC are 699 RMB / $ 109 / approx. HUF 35,900, but the seller did not provide pictures of these motherboards. It probably has a better power supply and IO than the HDV version. The two Gigabyte motherboards are the B660M DS3H and D2H, both with DDR4, 755 RMB / $ 118 / approx. HUF 38,700. They have more heat sinks on the VRMs and PCH, they have an M.2 slot, but they can accommodate four DDR4 DIMMs, and the boards are also strong in the IO ports.
In addition to the H610 series motherboards, all of them support memory tuning (XMP 3.0). With IO, H670s will have up to two PCIe Gen 5 slots (x16 or x8 / x8 electric) and the rest will have only one Gen 5. With the exception of the H610 boards, each will have an NVMe (Gen 4.0 x4) connected to the CPU. DMI? 4.0 x8 link on H670 and 4.0 x4 on B660 and H610. Gen 4? 12 on H670, 6 on B660, none on H610. Gen 3: 12, 8, and 8, respectively.
Pricing can be quite fair, at least in the U.S. (all of which will be cheaper than the Z690 series), and DDR4 support is understandable, as DDR5 is either too expensive or too little. Intel’s 12th generation non-Ks Alder Lake processors have also been leaked (we wrote about them) and they are not weak either. New 600 Series motherboards from ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, ASRock and Biostar will be unveiled at CES 2022…
Source: WCCFTech
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