ASRock’s Dual DDR5 & DDR4 Motherboard Makes Perfect Sense In The Current Memory Crisis

ASRock has shown off its cleverly engineered H610 motherboard, which houses both DDR5 & DDR4 slots to tackle the memory crisis.

ASRock's Entry-Level Motherboard Gives Budget Builders Both DDR5 & DDR4 Options To Fight Against Rising Memory Prices

Last month, ASRock unveiled its new H610M Combo motherboard, which featured a unique design that combined both DDR5 and DDR4 memory slots on a mATX form factor. This motherboard was specifically launched to give users the flexibility to fight against rising memory prices. As you know, DDR5 prices are out of control, and while DDR4 memory has also seen severe price hikes, it still cost lower than DDR5.

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DRAM chaos messing with your build list? @ASRockInfo’s new H610M Combo motherboard supports DDR4 or DDR5 with six DIMM slots. With memory prices changing daily, this flexible design lets you use whatever’s cheaper or more available to complete your build. pic.twitter.com/t5RmxTQuuQ

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However, most current-gen motherboards have moved to the newer DDR5 standard. This has opened up the space for older motherboards and older CPU platforms in the DIY space. Even AMD has hinted at re-launching or bringing older CPUs to retail in some capacity. But even then, DDR4 has no future upgrade path, but DDR5 can be used in future platforms. So getting a DDR4 platform means you don't have much upgrade choice ahead, but with DDR5 platforms, you do have a choice.

That's why ASRock has built the H610M Combo, which supports both DDR5-4800 and DDR4-2666 MT/s memory. The motherboard features four DDR5 DIMM slots and two DDR4 DIMM slots. So in total, this is a six-slot design. Budget users can get the motherboard with a modern-day CPU, and if DDR5 isn't priced suitably for them now, they can simply get DDR4 modules and upgrade to DDR5 later.

ASRock currently offers this DDR5 and DDR4 memory combination on the H610 motherboard, which only offers support for 14th, 13th, and 12th Gen CPUs. These are still more popular than the new Arrow Lake-S offerings, so it makes sense.

But for other platforms to feature this dual memory combination, they need to have older DDR4 controllers on the CPU IMC itself. Arrow Lake and Ryzen 7000/9000 CPUs are only DDR5-specific, so unfortunately, it is unlikely that we will get such a motherboard implementation on those motherboards.

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