Plethora of Intel Z490 chipset LGA 1200 motherboards leak

[Domestic_Ginger]

Rooting for the underdog; Intel has had such a strangle hold for so long.

Intel has consistently pushed a 10% yearly upgrade for so long it has stagnated the enthusiast market.

I think AMD with its latest chiplet design and the am4 lifespan deserves credit.

[azrael-]

TBH I still beg to differ. You cannot just lump together every socket from AMD and from Intel and claim they're equally bad. In my opinion you need to look at the comparable platforms instead. So for Intel those would be the single socket non-HEDT versions of the Core i/Xeon Ex processors from 2010 onward, and for AMD the Phenom II, FX and Ryzen processors released in the same period.

Let's take AMD first. I count three sockets here: AM3, AM3+ and the current AM4.

For Intel I see socket 1155, 1150, 1151 rev.1 and 2, and now 1200. That's five. And that's without paying attention to those other little differences Intel introduced which have made it near impossible to use a motherboard for more than one CPU generation.

It's logical that the socket has to change when changing the memory type, since all modern CPUs have the MMU on-die. But in my mind Intel isn't even trying to keep motherboards compatible for more than one CPU generation.

[ik9000]

But in my mind Intel isn't even trying to keep motherboards compatible for more than one CPU generation.

corrected that for you. The fact that the motherboards haven't offered that speaks for itself. It's not by accident.

[Xlucine]

The intel equivalent to AM1 was BGA

[3dcandy]

What I like AMD for compared to Intel is that the atx B450 chipset motherboard in this pc can handle from a £50 processor with integrated graphics right up to a 16c/32t processor with an m.2 slot, 4 x sata and 4xdimms. Cost me £79.99 new on offer. Intel is nowhere near this flexibility. AM4 is such a versatile and forward thinking socket

[edmundhonda]

AMD's handling of AM4 is decent. Not amazing but decent. Obviously better than Intel's garbage with 1151.

These motherboards are a very hard sell when we already know there's a 500-series chipset (the one with PCIe 4.0 support) launching with Rocket Lake, supposedly still some time this year. There's a chance these Z490 boards will be forwards-compatible, but I wouldn't take that bet.

[3dcandy]

Not everyone clearly, but if you go back and look at any news posting for AMD and then look at the equivalent from Intel or Nvidia...comments on AMD are overwhelmingly positive, wheras Intel & Nvidia are constantly put down, regardless of whether it's valid or not.

Problem is both those, for want of a better term, have become lazy. Both are in competition with the same company as well. I can't think of 2 huge tech companies who have almost totally different products (for a bit anyhoo) who have been in such a dominant position against the same company and have become so complacent because of the success

[QuorTek]

would rather pay more that I could use many more series of CPU's in... instead of having two buy CPU + MOBO all the time... overall AMD is cheaper and better.. so I don't get the Intel way.

[six_tymes]

Better late than never I suppose. Z490 was suppose to be released a year ago.