Intel introduces 65W and 35W Alder Lake CPUs alongside H670, B660 and H610 chipsets

After two months of waiting, Intel announced its new 65W and 35W Alder Lake CPUs alongside the H670, B660 and H610 chipsets, enabling a much cheaper upgrade path to 12th. Generation of Intel Core processors.

The Alder Lake line of low-power processors ranges from Core i9 to Celeron, offering a wide range of options for different budgets and needs. The models that stand out the most are the i5-12400F that offers 6 cores and 12 threads for US $ 167 and the i3-12100F that offers 4 cores and 8 threads for US $ 97, which will allow to obtain a high performance single- core and multi-core for little money, being an excellent option to build a new PC in 2022 together with GPUs like the RTX 3060 or the new RTX 3050 announced a few hours ago.

Also announced were new “T” -termined processors featuring 35W TDP, designed for low-power ITX PCs, spanning options from the i9-12900T to the Celeron G6900T. Given that the majority of our audience belongs to the gamer public, we must clarify that we do not recommend them for this use since, due to their low TDP, the load frequencies are usually quite low and therefore so is their performance.

New H670, B660 and H610 chipsets

In addition to its new CPUs, Intel also introduced the new H670, B660 and H610 chipsets, providing new lower-cost options for those looking to upgrade to Alder Lake. As always, in none of these three chipsets is it allowed to overclock the CPU, although in the case of H670 and B660 the memories can be overclocked. H610 curiously, in addition to not supporting memory overclocking, it also does not support dual-channel memories, which does not make much sense and it is another unnecessary artificial limitation for Intel to buy higher cost products.

Different chipsets also have different amounts of I / O, with H670 having practically the same I / O as Z690, B660 having only 6 PCI-E 4.0 lanes and 8 PCI-E 3.0 lanes, and H610 supporting only 8 PCI-E lanes. 3.0, without any PCI-E 4.0 lane from the chipset. The number of USB ports is also reduced, although they are still usually sufficient for all uses.

It will be interesting to see the prices of motherboards based on these new chipsets, although everything indicates that the combination of a mid-range B660 motherboard with an i5-12400F or an i3-12100F will be the definitive option for PCs on a budget. in 2022. We will have to wait to see the prices in the market to confirm it, although luckily from tomorrow we will see the first models on the market to give us an idea.

What do you think about these new Alder Lake “No-K” processors and Intel’s H670, B660 and H610 chipsets? Do you plan to upgrade now that they hit the market?