ASRock's New Intel Motherboard Has Both DDR5 And DDR4 Memory Slots

Thanks to an AI arms race, PC memory prices have gotten out of control in the past several months (and also pushed Crucial out of the consumer market), but is a motherboard with slots for both DDR5 and DDR4 modules really the answer? Probably not but that didn't stop ASRock from quietly launching such a thing. It's new H610M Combo lives up to its model designation with six DIMM slots split unevenly for DDR5 and DDR5 kits.

Two of the DIMM slots support up to 64GB of DDR4 modules running at up to 2,666 MT/s while the other four are reserved for DDR5 modules in capacities up to 96GB and speeds at up to 4,800 MT/s. Before anyone gets any ideas of mixing and un-matching, however, you can't run both memory types at the same time, it's one or the other.

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