ASRock releases new Intel motherboard with support for both DDR4 and DDR5 memory — The “H610 Combo” features both types of DIMM slots, but you can’t mix generations

Is the cure to RAM pricing a motherboard that supports multiple generations? That’s what ASRock seems to be betting on with its latest release on the last-gen LGA1700 socket — a new Intel motherboard based on the H610 chipset that fulfils the company’s original announcement from three years ago, at last. The “H160M Combo” features support for both DDR4 and DDR5, while being the first consumer offering to do so in dual-channel mode.

It has 6 DIMMs in total, two reserved for DDR4 at a maximum speed of 2,666 MT/s, and the other four reserved for DDR5 at 4,800 MT/s. Keep in mind that those speeds can’t be increased with XMP, since H610 motherboards don’t allow memory overclocking. Previously, a similar H610 motherboard was released by ONDA, but it had only two slots in total, one for either DDR4 or DDR5, so ASRock is still one-upping it in a big way.