Motherboards by chipset
Within a socket, the chipset sets what the board can do: overclocking, the PCIe generation of the graphics and M.2 slots, and how many ports it has. Each chipset page explains the differences that matter.
| Chipset | Boards | Price |
|---|---|---|
| X870E motherboardsX870E is AMD's top AM5 chipset, launched alongside Ryzen 9000 in 2024. | 75 | from £184.99 |
| X870 motherboardsX870 uses a single chipset controller, so it has fewer downstream lanes and ports than X870E, but AMD's requirements are the same where it matters: USB4, a PCIe 5.0 graphics slot and a PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot are all mandatory. | 53 | from £167.99 |
| B850 motherboardsB850 is the mainstream AM5 chipset of the Ryzen 9000 generation and the successor to B650. | 141 | from £72.17 |
| B840 motherboardsB840 is the entry-level 800-series AM5 chipset. | 17 | from £84.99 |
| B650E motherboardsB650E is the Extreme version of B650: AMD requires PCIe 5.0 on both the graphics slot and at least one M.2 slot, which plain B650 does not. | 18 | from £139.99 |
| B650 motherboardsB650 was the volume AM5 chipset at the Ryzen 7000 launch and is still widely sold. | 92 | from £69.98 |
| A620 motherboardsA620 is the budget AM5 chipset. | 45 | from £56.89 |
| X670E motherboardsX670E was the flagship AM5 chipset of the Ryzen 7000 launch, using two chipset controllers as X870E does after it. | 15 | from £306.36 |
| X670 motherboardsX670 has the same dual-controller layout and connectivity as X670E, but only the PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot is mandatory; the graphics slot is usually PCIe 4.0, which costs little or nothing in practice with today's graphics cards. | 3 | from £289.99 |
| X570 motherboardsX570, launched in 2019, was the first consumer chipset with PCIe 4.0 throughout, from the chipset as well as the CPU, which is why most boards have a small chipset fan. | 17 | from £217.07 |
| B550 motherboardsB550 is the sweet spot of AM4: PCIe 4.0 from the processor for the graphics slot and one M.2 slot, PCIe 3.0 for everything hung off the chipset, and full CPU and memory overclocking. | 122 | from £68.16 |
| A520 motherboardsA520 is the entry-level AM4 chipset: PCIe 3.0 only, no CPU overclocking and fewer ports, but it runs Ryzen 3000, 4000G and 5000 series processors and supports memory overclocking. | 79 | from £41.70 |
| B450 motherboardsB450 dates from 2018 and is PCIe 3.0 only, but board makers extended support all the way to Ryzen 5000 through BIOS updates. | 21 | from £61.88 |
| Z890 motherboardsZ890 is the enthusiast chipset for Core Ultra 200S on LGA1851 and the only 800-series chipset with CPU overclocking. | 90 | from £160.12 |
| B860 motherboardsB860 is the mainstream LGA1851 chipset. | 72 | from £72.73 |
| H810 motherboardsH810 is the entry-level LGA1851 chipset: one memory module per channel, so two slots, no overclocking of any kind, and fewer USB ports and PCIe lanes than B860. | 18 | from £74.99 |
| Z790 motherboardsZ790 arrived with 13th generation Core in 2022 and supports 12th, 13th and 14th generation processors on LGA1700. | 56 | from £134.98 |
| B760 motherboardsB760 is the mainstream LGA1700 chipset: memory overclocking (XMP) is supported, CPU overclocking is not, which suits the non-K Core i5 and i7 chips most people buy. | 102 | from £37.90 |
| H770 motherboardsH770 sits between B760 and Z790: more chipset PCIe lanes and USB ports than B760, with memory overclocking but no CPU overclocking. | 2 | from £217.02 |
| H610 motherboardsH610 is the entry-level LGA1700 chipset: one memory module per channel, so two slots, no memory or CPU overclocking, and PCIe 3.0 from the chipset. | 55 | from £47.88 |
| Z690 motherboardsZ690 launched LGA1700 with 12th generation Core in late 2021 and was the first desktop platform with DDR5 and PCIe 5.0. | 13 | from £310.93 |
| B660 motherboardsB660 is the 600-series counterpart of B760, with slightly fewer PCIe 4.0 chipset lanes. | 14 | from £98.78 |
| Z590 motherboardsZ590 is the top LGA1200 chipset, launched with 11th generation Core in 2021. | 4 | from £143.42 |
| B560 motherboardsB560 was the first Intel B-series chipset to allow memory overclocking, which made it a far better partner for 10th and 11th generation Core i5 chips than B460 before it. | 4 | from £63.44 |
| H510 motherboardsH510 is the entry-level 500-series chipset for LGA1200: two memory slots, no overclocking and a short list of ports. | 3 | from £65.40 |
| H81 motherboardsH81 is the entry-level Intel 8-series chipset for LGA1150 and 4th generation Core processors: two DDR3 memory slots, no overclocking, PCIe 2.0 for the graphics slot and only two SATA 6Gb/s ports. | 23 | from £27.68 |
| B75 motherboardsB75 is Intel's 7-series business chipset for LGA1155, launched in 2012 with 3rd generation Core (Ivy Bridge) and also running 2nd generation chips. | 49 | from £19.03 |