Biostar took to Twitter yesterday to trace at two new variants of their well-liked Racing and Valkyrie high-end Z690 motherboards.
BIOSTAR Teases Its Subsequent-Gen Z690 Motherboards In Valkyrie & Racing Sequence Flavors
It’s speculated that Biostar is hinting at an Intel Z690 Alder Lake CPU-powered motherboard for the 2 collection. With Intel releasing the Z690 quickly, the hypothesis may very well be extra nearer to truth.
With different main motherboard producers, reminiscent of ASUS, MSI, or GIGABYTE, nonetheless silent so far as new releases of merchandise using the Intel Alder Lake CPU, that is the primary firm to talk up so far as hinting at newer designs.
There isn’t a specs for both Valkyrie or Racing motherboards by Biostar launched but. The truth is, there isn’t any full design reveals made by the corporate. It’s also attention-grabbing that we have no idea the kind of reminiscence getting used, whether or not it’s DDR4 or DDR5. It’s beneath rumor that the Valkyrie collection shall be Biostar’s “flagship collection” and that it’ll most likely require the latest type of reminiscence accessible, being the DDR5.
Intel Alder Lake collection is the corporate’s twelfth era Core processor. With Intel sporting a brand new design for the LGA socket—the LGA1700 is rectangular in form, and has required a number of producers to right away give you compatibility kits for the latest design—Biostar seems to mannequin the latest Racing and Valkyrie motherboards to suit the LGA1700 socket. The truth is, upon nearer inspection of the 2 footage posted on Twitter, it seems to point out a part of the socket of the LGA1700. It’s a secure guess that these two collection are completely Z690 motherboards.
Intel’s design selection for the LGA1700 socket and utilization of DDR5 reminiscence modules aren’t the one latest expertise the corporate is bringing to the desk. The Intel Z690 collection is predicted to showcase PCIe Gen5 interfacing to have the ability to make the most of newer storage ideas and expertise, in addition to cater to newer graphics processors—a primary for client traces.
Within the Tweet from yesterday, in addition they positioned two hashtags—”#Rena” and “#Amy.” That is in reference to the 2 mascots that Biostar revealed throughout their Thirty fifth-anniversary celebration. Rena is the mascot for Biostar’s Valkyrie line, whereas Amy is the mascot for his or her Racing line.
There isn’t a present launch date for the brand new Racing and Valkyrie motherboards. Nonetheless, with Biostar’s historical past with cryptocurrency of their applied sciences, particularly making gadgets extra environment friendly for crypto mining, is it doable that the corporate will make the most of these new boards in the identical means? Probably dual-use—gaming and crypto mining? Proper now, that’s solely hypothesis, and under no circumstances precise utilization of the motherboards.
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