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we were some preliminary information on the h2 70 and z2 70 chipsets for intel's upcoming kb lake platform if you don't already know you can with most motherboards flash existing platforms like z170 so that they will support the kb lake cpus because the socket type is the same but there are a few more differences with the new platforms i'll be going through those briefly today before we get into that this content is brought to you by MSI and their new Trident gaming PC which is on the table here and that is a GTX 1060 equipped machine very small for about $1000 link the description below for more information so it's been a little while since we talked about chipsets and their differences I think the last time was probably for the skylake platform we'll be doing that for this one and then again for Zen all those ends a bit different and we'll talk about why at that point for now the major items to look at with Intel chipsets are the HS io lanes or high-speed IO and put output and that's basically Intel's way of assigning lanes to different devices and the manufacturer of the motherboard has some level of control over to what device those lanes go so there's a base sort of set of lanes that go to USB and things like that with Intel's platform but the motherboard vendor can then decide to peel off some of those lanes and assign them to whatever devices they may deem necessary for example the z2 7 ths i/o lanes now versus z170 have increased by four so there are four more HS io lanes with z2 70 it's at 30 versus 26 for the z170 platform and then h2 70 is also at 30 this is new h1 70 didn't have the same Lane count as e1 70 in fact it was 22 versus 26 so I had four fewer now with the next generation with kb lake it will be at parity so z2 70 + h2 70 have the same HS io lane assignment the differences are elsewhere like multi GPU support and things like that I'll talk about that in a moment but that's up to speed so those are on par h1 70 was at 22 just kind of for reference be 150 has 18 and h1 10s 14 what are these HSI o lanes go to though they go to things like gigabyte Ethernet I talked about this with the previous chip side comparison Gigabit Ethernet you can peel them off if you wanted to to a PCIe slot though there's some issues there you can send them to m dot 2 devices for SSD support things like that and say to save Express stuff of that nature and USB 3 so that's what the lanes do the base for Z 270 in addition to its HSI Elaine assignment the chipset has 24 additional 3.0 lanes pcie 3.0 and the pcie 3.0 config that's natively supported only supported on z2 70 is you can have 1 by 16 card you can have 2 by 8 cards or you can have 1 by 8 with 2 by 4 sorted cards z170 was the same h2 70 is the same as h1 70 which is a single 16 lane assignment now here's the thing talked about this last time - there's kind of a common misconception where if you have these lanes or chipset PCIe lanes in the case of z2 70 that's 24 of them then that's more lanes you can put to the GPU that's not really correct technically these lanes can be peeled off for PCIe slots and they're kind of meant to be in some cases but they're more general-purpose PCIe lanes so therefore things like a by for m2 device whether it's through an AIC ed and card AIC or other means direct means nvme devices things like that is where you'd be peeling those lanes off because they're generally not more than by 2 or by 4 X 2 or X 4 with the GPU support for NVIDIA devices at least with multi-gpu they SLI requires by 8 as the minimum so that's 8 lanes assigned minimally for all the GPS in the system that means if you've got a by 4 GPU in there it's not going to work with SLI with NVIDIA setup now you could run by 4 with crossfire not necessarily well but you could do it so these lanes aren't really meant to be used for GPUs that's kind of putting that out there to make that clear the CPU itself is more responsible for that side of things that one's KB Lake is sort of launching that's more responsible for it the rest is general purpose though the chipset does have some dictation some control over what the multi-gpu set up support is ultimately even though those general purpose lanes aren't really used for it next thing of course overclocking is the same as always e2 70 lives overclocking h2 70 does not very simple just like the previous platform memory channels 2 channels again dual channel and a total of up to four sticks of RAM for the seat 17 HT so any platforms with two dimms per channel the next specs I suppose just really be all i/o so going to run through them quickly here native SATA 3 ports you've got six across the board until h1 10 max euwe has B ports 14 across the board until b1 52h 110 max USB 310 Anzhi 270 and 8 on h2 70 and into srt is supported on most of these raid supported on both of these new chipsets and independent display support is also three for each device and that's through the IGP another note here is e 2 7 you can support 3 m dot 2 devices on the motherboard so that's new sort of H 270 supports two of them in by four configurations Z 270 supports three of them in by four configurations that will enable your faster SSDs and that's the problem obviously with SATA as the world moves away from SATA we're going to see more m2 we're going to see a more PCIe or nvme enabled devices because SATA is a big bottleneck for us in the SSD space we're hitting that wall where the interface is now the problem not the device and that's not what you want so this is moving away from that sort of tentatively we're not there yet but we'll be there eventually these four SSDs that are kind of primary drives other than this there's not a lot of difference these are mostly the same as the previous generation chipset a lot of the specs are the same there's technically obtained support for z2 17 HD 70 that's kind of exciting I suppose but a lot of it's the same so if you already know about the previous chipsets you pretty much know about these ones it's not a lot to learn other than more HS io lanes and some differences in terms of the obtained support and stuff like that depend on which platform you're looking at so that is all for this time as always links in the description below for more information there will be an article on this with the table that I used here there's our patreon link of the postal video to help us out directly subscribe for more I'll see you all next time you