The B660 AORUS Master lives at the top of the B660 motherboard stack, and it includes both DDR5 and DDR4 variants to cater to a larger audience.

The MSI MAG Z790 Tomahawk WiFi DDR4 is an affordable motherboard with great I/O, plenty of M.2 slots, and a sleek design. But it lacks some of the next-gen features that will matter in the long term.

The same is true for Intel's 14th-generation CPUs. Memory Support: The first important distinction to make when looking for a new motherboard is whether it is DDR4 or DDR5 compatible.

Now we get a look at how the Crucial DDR4 memory performs on the ASRock EP2C612D16FM motherboard. We see good improvements on bandwidth using DDR4, and it offers improvements in latency over DDR3 ...

Gigabyte's Z690 UD AX DDR4 is a solid entry-level Z690 ATX motherboard for Alder Lake, featuring DDR4 support, built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, a respectable port selection, and decent looking VRM ...

Image source: Onda Image used with permission by copyright holder Onda’s new H610M+ micro-ATX motherboard comes with one DDR4 slot for DDR4-3200 memory and one DDR5 slot for DDR5-4800 memory ...

Unfortunately that’s not the case, as some mobos will support DDR4 instead of DDR5. Even though 12th-gen processors support both memory specifications, a motherboard will only implement one.

An enthusiast would be enticed to purchase the platform and that's awesome. However, as we pointed out above, there can be genuine reasons to opt for a DDR4 motherboard too.

But unfortunately, DDR5 RAM isn't backwards compatible with DDR4 motherboards. Right now, I have an AMD X570 motherboard, which is on the AM4 platform, but I'll need to upgrade to the AM5 platform ...

The top DDR4 bus speed will be 3,200 MHz, compared to DDR3’s 2,400 MHz, and it will support data transfer rates of up to 3.2 billion transfers per second, which is twice the transfer speed of DDR3.