[Hardware] Which chipset to choose for your Intel CPU? This is the complete 400 and 500 series

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With the release of Rocket Lake-S to the market and the entire range of Intel 11 Generation CPUs, users have at their disposal a huge number of motherboards, with a more than interesting amount of chipset to choose from. The problem, as is often the case with these things, is that you have to put its characteristics in perspective so that you can compare and guide the model later. What is the perfect chipset for each one? Today we technically compare them so you can choose.

Intel has left its new socket only two generations of processors, but the truth is that with LGA1200 it has solved many of the deficiencies that its CPUs had, especially from a global platform point of view. If it is already difficult to choose the plate model, the chipset is the final auction, so we are going to put white on black comparing all.

Intel chipset for LGA1200 400 series and 500 series, what's new?
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Although it seems obvious, Intel after the launch of AMD and Zen 3 has had to put the batteries and make its claims more flexible with its chipsets, since they are behind in certain sections, although in others they are ahead of their competition.

Therefore, first you have to reel off the whole and then focus on the ranges / segments and their differences:

Essential -> H410 and H510
Mainstream -> B460, B560, H470, H570
Enthusiast -> Z490 and Z590
As we can see, 8 are the available chipsets and the differences will vary between ranges.

Intel chipset H410 vs H510: the low-end hardly changes
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When comparing these chipsets we will see that the differences are minimal, and it is that Intel does not seem to have wanted to risk too much with them, especially with the new H510. It is true that now we can connect an NVMe SSD through a x4 line and that we have support for Intel Optane, the truth is that the changes are reduced in addition to these to the inclusion of the AX201 module for Wi-Fi 6 and another feature that does not We think it is too used: RAID 0,1,5 and 10.

What can be useful is the greater amount of RAM that the boards can support now. This is a bit controversial, although the support as such comes from the IMC, the board is the one that supports it by firmware, so if we have a H410 model we may not receive the microcode upgrade for 128 GB. Instead, H510 already has BIOS support on all motherboards, as standard.