Intel’s thirteenth Gen Raptor Lake (opens in new tab) CPU household will proceed to assist DDR4. In keeping with a leaked record of as but unreleased Asrock Z790 and H770 motherboards, there might be many 700-series motherboards that retain assist for DDR4 reminiscence. Asrock will definitely not be the one producer to supply it.
The record comes from Videocardz (by way of Computerbase.de). The listed Asrock boards embody fashions with a D4 suffix hooked up. D4 signifies DDR4 assist, because it does with present era 600-series boards.
The important thing takeaway is that Asrock will make a number of Z790 boards with DDR4 assist. I had suspected that quite a lot of decrease tier H770 and B760 motherboards would assist DDR4, with Z790 solely supporting DDR5, however that’s not the case.
The next record of Asrock 700-series motherboards just isn’t a whole record of Asrock’s boards. B760 is totally lacking in addition to some others which might be more likely to comply with after the launch, together with a Z790 Aqua or Z790 OC Components.
Intel has earned itself a bonus over AMD. Its upcoming Zen 4 processors solely assist DDR5, which is ok from a efficiency standpoint. It’s been rumoured that Zen 4 CPUs supply wonderful DDR5 overclocking capabilities, however it does imply {that a} Zen 4 improve will imply a brand new CPU, motherboard and reminiscence for many customers.
- ASRock Z790 Taichi
- ASRock Z790 Professional RS/D4
- ASRock Z790 PG Lightning
- ASRock Z790 PG Lightning/D4
- ASRock Z790M PG Lightning/D4
- ASRock Z790 PG Riptide
- ASRock Z790M PG Riptide
- ASRock Z790-C
- ASRock Z790-C/D4
- ASRock H770 PG Lightning
- ASRock H770 PG Lightning/D4
- ASRock H770 Metal Legend
Intel’s persevering with assist for DDR4 implies that the entire platform value might be considerably decrease. DDR4 remains to be extra reasonably priced than DDR5, and for a lot of, you gained’t have to purchase reminiscence in any respect, just by reusing your previous equipment. Intel will certainly win various patrons primarily based on DDR4 assist alone.
It is smart that Intel will retain DDR4 assist on 700 collection motherboards on condition that 600 collection boards and twelfth Gen Alder Lake CPUs already supply DDR4 assist. thirteenth Gen CPUs are an evolutionary improve over twelfth Gen fashions and each will proceed to make use of the LGA1700 socket.
So, in case you’re coming from an older DDR4 system, otherwise you’re lucky to be utilizing a beautiful low latency DDR4 equipment (opens in new tab) (which remains to be completely viable for a gaming system in 2022 and past), it’s wanting like a certain wager that you just’ll be capable to get at the least a few years out of it but.
