Chipsets based on the Intel H670, B660, and H610 will be announced next month, and the famed dataminer momomo us has now revealed specifications, confirming what can be expected from motherboards based on these chipsets.
A table of specifications shows that on the memory side, any one of the chipsets will be capable of supporting DDR4 or DDR5 memory, which is not surprising given that the memory controller is integrated into the CPU and, as a result, the memory type support is not dependent on which chipset is employed. Intel has implemented a BIOS lock on the use of memory above 3200MHz in H610, although motherboards with B660, H670, or Z690 will be able to use memory up to the maximum frequency that the motherboard supports. This is done to increase segmentation. Speaking about overclocking constraints established by the BIOS, the CPU can only be overclocked on the Z690, which is a traditional Intel feature that prevents the CPU from being overclocked on "Non-Z" chipsets.
When it comes to the PCI-E lines of the CPU, B660 will allow the manufacturer to separate the PCIe 5.0 lines of the CPU into two groups of eight lines each, if the manufacturer wants to offer two PCI-E 5.0 slots instead of just one, whereas in B660 and H610, Intel will only allow manufacturers to put a single PCI-E 5.0 slot, which will have 16 lines. Furthermore, the four PCI-E 4.0 lanes on the CPU can be used without issue in the H670 and B660 processors, however, Intel will not allow their usage in the H610 processor.
The H670 chipset will have 12 PCI-E 4.0 lanes in addition to 12 PCI-E 3.0 lanes, allowing it to support multiple M.2 or high-speed Ethernet ports. The B660 chipset will have 6 PCI-E 4.0 lanes in addition to 8 PCI-E 3.0 lanes, and the H610 chipset will only have 8 PCI-E 3.0 lanes, meaning that there will be no PCI-E 4.0 lanes available in Additionally, the DMI 4.0 connection that connects the CPU with the chipset in the B660 and H610 will only have four lines, providing half the bandwidth of the H670 chipset, which has eight lines, although this will not be a significant issue any longer. It is also important to note that the B660 and H610 do not have excessive I / O.
H670 will provide nearly all of the benefits of the Z690 without the need for CPU overclocking, the B660 will provide a few fewer PCI-E lanes but will be sufficient for the majority of users, and the H610 will be designed for entry-level PCs that do not include M.2 PCI-E 4.0 SSDs or memory speeds greater than 3200MHz.
According to expectations, the first motherboards equipped with these chipsets will be available in late January 2022, along with "No-K" processors such as the Core i5-12400 and Core i3-12100, among other options. New information on them will be made available to you as it becomes available.
H670, B660 and H610 chipset specs leaked
