Friday, December 27th 2024
Mid-January Launches for AMD B850 and B840; and Intel B860 and H810 Motherboards
In the first week of the 2025 International CES, Intel and AMD are expected to expand their desktop processor product stacks, with the introduction of 65 W models; and with them, more affordable motherboard chipset models. AMD is expected to launch the AMD B850 and AMD B840; while Intel debuts the Intel B860 and H810. Board Channels, a site that tracks hardware launches at the retail channel level, says that AMD is expected to set January 15 as the market availability date for motherboards based on the AMD B850 and B840. The chipset will be announced at AMD's January 7th event.
Meanwhile, Intel is expected to announce its mid-range Intel B860 and entry-level Intel H810 on its own event slated for January 7, but with product availability on January 13. The AMD B850 is essentially a rebadged B650, but motherboard vendors can optionally enable Gen 5 PEG instead of Gen 4, at which point the platform would essentially be an AMD X870, but without the mandatory discrete USB4 host controller. The AMD B850 supports CPU overclocking. The AMD B840 lacks this, and is functionally similar to the AMD B550 chipset from the Socket AM4 platform, except that it lacks CPU overclocking support. Meanwhile, the Intel B860 is expected to feature a similar I/O as the Intel B760 from the Socket LGA1700 platform. The H810 is expected to be a lean entry-level option. Both the Intel B860 and H810 are expected to lack CPU overclocking support, but the B860 probably retains memory overclocking capability.
Sources:
Board Channels, VideoCardz
Meanwhile, Intel is expected to announce its mid-range Intel B860 and entry-level Intel H810 on its own event slated for January 7, but with product availability on January 13. The AMD B850 is essentially a rebadged B650, but motherboard vendors can optionally enable Gen 5 PEG instead of Gen 4, at which point the platform would essentially be an AMD X870, but without the mandatory discrete USB4 host controller. The AMD B850 supports CPU overclocking. The AMD B840 lacks this, and is functionally similar to the AMD B550 chipset from the Socket AM4 platform, except that it lacks CPU overclocking support. Meanwhile, the Intel B860 is expected to feature a similar I/O as the Intel B760 from the Socket LGA1700 platform. The H810 is expected to be a lean entry-level option. Both the Intel B860 and H810 are expected to lack CPU overclocking support, but the B860 probably retains memory overclocking capability.
15 Comments on Mid-January Launches for AMD B850 and B840; and Intel B860 and H810 Motherboards
But, I know that in reality, all we will get is a rebrand of all B650 boards with USB4 tacked on, no new feature sets whatsoever, so the best choice I'll get will still be the Asrock B650M Pro RS (the Biostar B6500EGTQ would have been perfect but it's not available anywhere).
www.amd.com/en/products/processors/chipsets/am5.html#specs
is it about real market availibility (i.e. mass production) ?
Y'all realize AMD has broad PCIe bifurcation support and that passive (un-switched) Gen3, Gen4, and often even Gen5 M.2-PCIe adapter-expanders are *very* affordable ($20-50), right?
If I ever upgrade to AM5, at this rate, I'll be stuck w/ an old B650 board, just for expansion...
-PCIe x16 RX 7900 GRE
-PCIe x1 Asus Xonar Essence STX
-PCIe x4/x8 Active (switched) M.2x4 Expander
-PCIe x4/x8 Intel dual 10Gbase-T card
More x4, x8 and x16 slots, plox and spank you.
Neat.
About time for cheaper intel chipsets though, Arrow Lake is really hard to motivate as a value workstation with these asinine motherboard prices.
I sold my AM4 B550 mainboard for the buggy INTEL WIFI module which crashed the hole machine, turbo boost amd agesa - msi mainboard bug and for the lack of m2 nvme slots.
B550 chipset can only do 4 lanes pcie 4.0 nvme and another 4 lane pcie 3.0 nvme. I started with a 1tb pcie 4 nvme. than i bought another 1tb pcie 4.0 nvme.
At the time i bought those 1TB NVME was very expensive. Two 1tB NVME had cost me as much as one Ryzen 5800X I had (the second one i bought for that price).
There was no space left for another m2 nvme on that mainboard. Pcie 3.0 was dated for the m2 slot. Intel wlan annoyed me. The lack of the turbo boost annoyed me. (Found much later, that it was fixed much much later with a agesa update)
Sadly some newer AMD mainboard these days have pcie 3.0 again for the m2 slot.
We had high prices for cpus, dram, ssds, gpus. But we had affordable mainboards and power supplies.you mean x670, right? the second chipset gives you additional expansion slots.Not everyone has a small formfactor build with itx mainboard, 1 ram module, 1 graphic card, 1 nvme. That's perfectly fine for many, but not for everyone.
People are probably moving from SATA to m2. 4tb nvme is kinda affordable these days