On display in Biostar’s booth are some of their upcoming products and one that really caught our attention was the upcoming mid-range boards from their Hi-Fi series featuring the H170 and B150 chipsets for the upcoming 6th-generation Intel Skylake processors which provide support for both DDR4 and DDR3 simultaneously.
Not much technical specs is provided but seems like BIOSTAR is pulling off some of the stuff that ASROCK used to go with back in their early days along with GIGABYTE on some of their boards that provide users a bridge platform to use both native platform memory DIMM type along with the last-gen. This kind of approach is aimed at people who wish to save up and use their existing DDR3 memories which are a lot more cheaper than current DDR4 offerings. BIOSTAR is looking to cash in on this potential market and provide a solution to transitioning system owners.
The board models currently planned to support dual memory types for BIOSTAR’s line-ups are the BIOSTAR HI-FI H170Z3, an mATX motherboard and the HI-FI B150Z5 which is an ATX height motherboard. Both models sport dual-channel DDR3 memory and dual-channel DDR4 memory with 4 DIMM slots total; 2 for DDR3, 2 for DDR4.
Also on display at BIOSTAR’s Computex booth is their upcoming high-end Z170 offering: the BIOSTAR GAMING Z170X. This board is very much like the existing GAMING Z97X from BIOSTAR with a few Z170 chipset improvements to go along with it including a secondary M.2 slot, onboard touch-enabled OC buttons, and USB3.1 Type C ports. Not much in terms specs is given also. Together on display with this board is the BIOSTAR GTX 960 VR9605XVX1 GAMING OC. A BIOSTAR representative has also told us that a GTX 980 Ti is in the works.
Other products on display are BIOSTAR’s current motherboard lineup including the H81MHV3 and other HI-FI models.
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Can you use both memory types at the same time?
That they didn’t disclose. Either they’re working on it or it probably doesn’t. Based on the older DDR2+DDR3 boards we had, only one mem type can be supported so that’s what I’m banking at. Still, technology’s come a long ways since then. Hopefully it DOES support both at the same time.