The LGA1700 platform has been on the market for a long time, but users still have some needs for the previous LGA1200 platform.
According to momomo_us, ASUS recently quietly launched three new Prime H510 motherboards. Although ASUS advertises these three motherboards as H510, they still use the previous H470 chipset and LGA1200 platform.
In fact, it is nothing new for manufacturers to refurbish old products. If you have to say it, it can be traced back to a long, long time ago.
Sometimes, some products are designed with a specific chipset in mind, but as that specific chipset has reached the end of life (EOL) status, and the manufacturer must upgrade to a new platform, but at this time there may be Excess inventory of old chipsets that manufacturers had to somehow clear.
Especially for the H-series chipsets, unless there are special needs, Intel will not update them from generation to generation, such as the latest Intel 700 series chipsets and the 13th generation Raptor Lake processors. Intel has launched the Z790, H770 and B760, but The H710 chipset may never be released for it, because it doesn’t matter, OEMs can completely upgrade the firmware of the H610 motherboard to support Raptor Lake, and may not upgrade the chipset again until the next generation of Raptor Lake Refresh.
Back to ASUS motherboards, while the H510 chipset is relatively new, the H470 chipset promises superior features, more luxurious cooling, and expanded performance. For example, the H470 supports more single-channel memory and RAID, and offers more PCIe lanes, USB ports, and SATA III ports.
In fact, some manufacturers will release old motherboards based on new platforms. For example, Gigabyte will implant some H510 chipsets into H410 motherboards, such as H410M S2 V3 or H410M DS2V V3. Judging from the results, both operations benefit users, because H510 and H410 are both $28 (currently about RMB 198), and the functions provided are almost identical, the only difference is that H510 supports Wi-Fi -Fi 6 while the H410 supports Intel VT-d.
