
RyanSmithAT: Of course, AMD is the beneficiary of a chip crunch while also eating Intel's lunch.RyanSmithAT: Unless Valve were to sample the press, not any time soon.RyanSmithAT: That information isn't in Intel's ARK, but it is around.IanCutress: Better source for actual chip details.IanCutress: Appearing on the podcast, come hang out!.IanCutress: Your post came up on a few of my meetings on the following days, so you are being read.IanCutress: When Intel sold its half of the Utah fab to Micron, it turned it to NAND, and Intel said it'd be moving Optane manu….IanCutress: aha, I must've missed that, thanks!.Intel has not formally confirmed specs or features of its upcoming chips. The new chips will rely on Intel’s Coffee Lake/Kaby Lake microarchitecture, will feature up to eight cores, and will be made using a 14 nm process technology. Intel is expected to announce its 9 th Gen Core processors in the coming weeks. GIGABYTE's Motherboards Supporting Intel's 9th Gen Core CPUs Previously MSI added support for Intel’s new CPUs to its Z370-based mainboards. The release reaffirms that Intel’s forthcoming CPUs will work on motherboards that are already available.Īs of now, 58 motherboards from GIGABYTE based on Intel’s Z370, H370, B360, and H310 chipsets support Intel’s upcoming Core i3/i5/i7 9000-series processors with the latest BIOS (see the whole list in the table below). As such, we would highly recommend a different motherboard, preferably with USB 3.0 functionality as well.GIGABYTE has released new BIOS versions for its motherboards based on Intel’s 300-series chipsets, which add support for the upcoming 9 th Generation Core i3/i5/i7 processors. With so few slots, however, you would have to use a USB expansion hub. While USB 3.0 slots are so far by no means necessary, and with a plethora of USB 2.0 peripherals to choose from, the USB functionality on this motherboard should be fine. The GigaByte GA-H270M-DS3H has 4 USB 2.0 slots but no USB 3.0 slots. The GigaByte GA-H270M-DS3H supports up to 2 AMD Crossfire connected graphics cards for improved overall graphical performance at the cost of multiplied graphics-based power consumption as well as the price of the cards themselves. This means it is perfectly capable of accommodating the latest graphics cards, although it is important to try and use a graphics card with the same graphics card interface of Not sure, as anything below will not reach the motherboard's potential, and anything above will have its performance slashed to the bandwidth maximum of the GigaByte GA-H270M-DS3H's Not sure. There are 1 PCIe x16 slots on this motherboard. Any system build that uses this motherboard therefore requires a separate graphics card, or a processor that has a GPU on the same die, such as AMD APU processors. The GigaByte GA-H270M-DS3H does not support onboard graphics. Generally speaking, only high performance hard drives, specifically solid-state drives, will be able to take advantage of the bandwidth potential of SATA 3.0 ports, though it is backwards compatible, so you do not have to take advantage. These allow for theoretical data transfer speeds of up to 6GB/s, as opposed to the 3GB/s of SATA 2.0. The GigaByte GA-H270M-DS3H has 8 SATA 3.0 hard drive slots. Its size comes at the cost of features, so there are likely to be far fewer connections and expansion options available than in a larger motherboard. The Micro-ATX GigaByte GA-H270M-DS3H should fit into all ATX cases, but its smaller size allows you to downsize your system build as a whole. It uses the DDR4 memory type, with maximum speeds of up to 2400 MHz, and 0 DDR4 slots allowing for a maximum total of 64 GB RAM. Any compatible Intel CPU will have the same socket entry. The GigaByte GA-H270M-DS3H uses the Intel Not sure CPU socket.
