Rocket Lake-S processors are designed for motherboards with an LGA1200 socket to be compatible with motherboards based on Intel 400 series chipsets, but not all. Owners of models based on Z490 and H470 chipsets will only need to update the BIOS to use the new chips. Owners of motherboards based on Intel H410 and Intel B460 chipsets, in turn, were out of luck since Intel deprived these motherboards of support for new 11th generation Core processors.

The entry-level H410 and B460 chipsets will not work with the new Rocket Lake-S processors, as they are not compatible at the technology level – the chipsets are built using an older 22nm process technology. To get around this limitation, motherboard manufacturers will have to replace the lower-end chipsets with the more modern H470.

Gigabyte seems to be planning to do so without changing the products’ names under which they initially entered the market. The manufacturer quietly presented the H410M DS2V V2 and H410M S2H V2 boards based on the H470 chipset, although the name indicates a less advanced set of Intel system logic.

Since the vendor has already prepared “updated” boards, it can be assumed that Intel is aware of the manufacturer’s idea and is not at all against it. On the other hand, Gigabyte could have taken such a step on its own without Intel’s approval. In this case, it will not be the first time that the company’s partners violate its vowel rules. For example, several years ago,  MSI and ASRock allowed their motherboards to overclock Skylake processors with a locked multiplier, bypassing Intel’s prohibition.