As additional proof for this matter, we will check out the record of 700-series ASRock motherboards acquired by Videocardz. The record of pre-prelease merchandise covers what seems like it’ll in all probability be ASRock’s total collection of Z790 motherboards (not less than at launch) in addition to few H770 motherboards. Blended in with the record of fashions are quite a few platters suffixed with /D4, clearly indicating that they’ll take DDR4 reminiscence.
Clearly this is only one vendor, and ASRock has by no means been one to shrink back from doing issues that Intel is not too keen on. Prior to now, ASRock has shipped wacky motherboards just like the P45TurboTwins2000 that supported each DDR2 and DDR3 reminiscence for Core 2 processors. It is fully potential that ASRock would be the solely vendor transport DDR4-compatible motherboards for Raptor Lake, however we would not guess on it.
The names of the chipsets aren’t a shock in the event you’ve been listening to Intel’s chipset naming for the final twelve generations, however even past that, we have already had a sort-of affirmation of Intel’s Raptor Lake chipset names from Biostar’s submitting with the Eurasian Financial Union. Certain, Biostar recanted that itemizing—probably as a result of it needed to—however there isn’t any actual cause to doubt it.
Nevertheless, the previous couple of generations of Intel CPUs have launched with its high-end chipsets first, whereas the mid-range and lower-end chipsets have come later. Provided that we have now heard about B760 and H770 together with Z790, it appears potential that Intel might launch its complete vary of 700-series chipsets . That is simply conjecture, in fact, so hold your eyes right here for an official announcement.
