Last updated on December 8th, 2022 at 02:49 pm
There is a way out for new buyers
A couple of days ago, Intel confirmed that the B460 and H410 chipsets do not support the upcoming Rocket Lake-S processors; that is, the owners of such motherboards will have to change the board event of a CPU change.
Intel created the problem, and Gigabyte partially solved it. It became known why the B460 and H410 chipsets do not support the Rocket Lake CPU
However, there is an exception. Gigabyte decided to rectify the situation in a rather unusual way. For its two entry-level motherboard models – H410M DS2V V2 and H410M S2H V2 – the manufacturer used not the H410, as the name might suggest, but the more expensive H470 chipset. Thus, while positioning motherboards in the lower price segment, Gigabyte managed to endow them with support for upcoming CPUs. True, there are no data on prices yet, but they should still be small. It can be assumed that other manufacturers will do about the same.
Valid, this does not save those who already own the LGA1200 platform, but it allows you to build a new PC with a Rocket Lake processor at a lower price.
Also, Intel explained why the B460 and H410 lack support for the new processors. The fact is that some batches of such chipsets are renamed old models, which were still produced using a 22-nanometer process technology instead of a 14-nanometer one. Intel took such a step due to the lack of production capacity.
The old process technology itself is not a problem, of course. But, since the logic sets are actually old, they are limited to the old version of Intel ME (Management Engine). They do not have the ability to communicate with the new CPUs on the sideband using PMSYNC / PMDN signals.
