Sunday, March 6th 2022
ONDA Releases First DDR4+DDR5 Socket LGA1700 Motherboard—But it's Single-Channel
Chinese motherboard maker ONDA released the first Intel Socket LGA1700 motherboard that features both DDR4 and DDR5 memory support—something we learned quite early on that Intel either isn't allowing or is "discouraging" motherboard vendors to do. The ONDA H610M+ is based on the entry-level Intel H610 chipset, and is an otherwise basic-looking motherboard. The memory sub-system is interesting.
While the board supports both DDR5 and DDR4, there's only one of each slots, so you're limited to single-channel, and like every motherboard from the past that supported multiple memory types; you can't use the DDR5 and DDR4 slots at the same time. The board runs DDR4 at a maximum frequency of DDR4-3200, and the DDR5 slot at DDR5-4800 (max). That's not all, the board is quite possibly the only H610 chipset-based motherboard with a Gen 5 PCI-Express x16 slot (every other H610 board we've come across has Gen 4, to keep costs low). PCIe Gen 5 is allowed for the H610 platform. Another interesting bit is the M.2 E-key slot, so you can drop in a WLAN module. It's likely that this board will only be available in the Chinese market.
Source:
momomo_us (Twitter)
While the board supports both DDR5 and DDR4, there's only one of each slots, so you're limited to single-channel, and like every motherboard from the past that supported multiple memory types; you can't use the DDR5 and DDR4 slots at the same time. The board runs DDR4 at a maximum frequency of DDR4-3200, and the DDR5 slot at DDR5-4800 (max). That's not all, the board is quite possibly the only H610 chipset-based motherboard with a Gen 5 PCI-Express x16 slot (every other H610 board we've come across has Gen 4, to keep costs low). PCIe Gen 5 is allowed for the H610 platform. Another interesting bit is the M.2 E-key slot, so you can drop in a WLAN module. It's likely that this board will only be available in the Chinese market.
14 Comments on ONDA Releases First DDR4+DDR5 Socket LGA1700 Motherboard—But it's Single-Channel
I don't understand the hate. Single Channel's biggest performance hit is on IGP usage, it has a full fat PCIe x16 5.0 slot for that. For most of the other applications, while not optimal, it's sufficient.
Any mention of Bifurcation support? That would even more strongly indicate this board is meant for Industrial and Specialized-Appliance PCs.
edit:
From ONDA:Yup, 110%, this is an Industrial PC motherboard. The iridescence in the pics is probably a heavy conformal coating of some sort.*
Didn't see any mention of PCIe bifurcation though.
*"Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition" is one hellova conformal coating; probably a form of siloxane.
Onda = The Evil in Swedish...
The only thing this is good for is CPU mining.
Completely cripple RAM bandwidth, for what? To add a DDR5 option? Incredibly stupid, and a massive oversight.
100% should just be Dual Channel DDR4, industrial board or not. This isn't really even up for debate. 2xDDR4 is faster than 1xDDR5 in any scenario.
Again, massive oversight.
Funny but 16 or 32 gb is all anyone really needs.
It would be really silly if there were a 4 or 8gb limit but I missed what is the max single stick that can be used.
Last I read ddr5 even a single stick uses dual channel