While Intel 12th Generation Core Desktop Edition expanded to 28 models, the supporting motherboard also added mainstream H670, B660, and entry-level H610 in addition to the previous high-end Z690.
Yes, the H series, which has always been high or low, is still there...
The specification differences between the four of them are also reduced one by one according to the convention.
Z690 is of course the most comprehensive, H670 in fact, the change is not much, mainly to cancel the processor overclocking, PCIe 3.0 channels from 16 to 12 (keep the full 12 PCIe 4.0), USB 3.1, USB 3.0 interface from 10 to 4, 8 respectively, the other is exactly the same.
The shrinkage of B660 is mainly PCIe, USB, only support 6 PCIe 4.0, 8 PCIe 3.0, 6 USB 3.0, 12 USB 2.0, in addition to the processor channel from DMI 4.0 x8 halved to DMI 4.0 x4, of course, it is actually PCIe 4.0, and the SATA 6Gbps interface is halved to 4, and the RAID 0/1/5 array function is lost.
However, it still supports memory overclocking.
H610 as the lowest end of the product, the specifications are naturally the lowest, no longer support memory overclocking, and only support single channel, lost PCIe 4.0, USB 3.2, only support 2 USB 3.1, 4 USB 3.0, 10 USB 2.0.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that the Intel 600 series motherboards have added support for VMD functions, that is, volume management devices, which can more easily manage PCIe devices, and the entire series is supported.
Wi-Fi 6E Giga+ wireless network is also standard, but I believe that the H610 board will not have this.
In general, H670 is still difficult to escape embarrassment, the specifications are not too much worse than Z690, the cost and price can not come down, or the functional performance can not catch up with the Z690, the cost performance can not beat the B660...
Asus B660 blowing snow