Cheaper H670, B660, H610 Motherboards For Intel Alder Lake CPUs Leak Out, Coming Soon In DDR5 & DDR4 Flavors

Hassan Mujtaba
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Dec 13, 2021 at 03:45am EST
Cheaper H670, B660, H610 Motherboards For Intel Alder Lake CPUs Leak Out, Coming Soon In DDR5 & DDR4 Flavors

For those waiting for cheaper motherboard options for Intel's Alder Lake  CPUs, you will soon have several H670, B660 & H610 products to select from.

Mainstream, Budget & Entry-Tier H670, B660, H610 Motherboards For Intel Alder Lake CPUs Listed, Launching Soon!

While the initial 12th Gen lineup was made up of high-end unlocked SKUs, the Non-K chips along with more mainstream and entry-level options will be coming to the market in Q1 2022. The Alder Lake platform will also receive three new consumer-grade chipsets which will cost much lower than existing Z690 options. These would range from H670, B660, and H610 motherboards.

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Momomo_US managed to get a list of several upcoming mainstream and entry-level Alder Lake motherboards which include various manufacturers and options ranging from DDR5 to DDR4. It can be seen below:

ASUS 600-Series Motherboard Lineup:

ASRock 600-Series Motherboard Lineup:

MSI 600-Series Motherboard Lineup:

Gigabyte 600-Series Motherboard Lineup:

All motherboards besides the H610 series will support memory overclocking (XMP 3.0). As for IO, H670 will feature up to PCIe Gen 5 slots (x16 or x8/x8 electrical) while the rest will feature a single Gen 5 slot. All motherboards expect H610 will have a CPU attached NVMe (Gen 4.0 x4). As for DMI, the H670 boards will have a 4.0 x8 link while B660 and H610 will carry a 4.0 x4 link. In terms of Gen 4 lanes, H670 carries 12, B660 carries 6 and H610 carries none. For Gen 3, H670 carries 12 lanes & both B660/H610 carries 8 lanes. We have more detailed chipset configurations mentioned in the main article here. With that said, we also recently reported the prices of several MSI B660 boards that you can see here.

The motherboards will carry lower price points than the Z690 series and we can expect sub-$100 US options based on the H610 chipset. It is also nice that most of these motherboards have DDR4 support as DDR5 is either too expensive or has severe supply issues at the moment to make it a good option for the budget and mass consumer market.

Motherboard manufacturers including ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, ASRock and Biostar will be unveiling their new 600-series designs based on the H670, B660, and H610 chipsets at CES 2022 so stay tuned!

About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.

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