Biostar Teases Its Next-Gen Valkyrie & Racing Series Z690 Motherboards

Biostar took to Twitter yesterday to hint at two new variants of their pop Racing and Valkyrie high-stop Z690 motherboards.

BIOSTAR Teases Its Next-Gen Z690 Motherboards In Valkyrie & Racing Series Flavors

Information technology is speculated that Biostar is hinting at an Intel Z690 Alder Lake CPU-powered motherboard for the ii serial. With Intel releasing the Z690 soon, the speculation could be more closer to fact.

With other major motherboard manufacturers, such as ASUS, MSI, or GIGABYTE, still silent as far every bit new releases of products utilizing the Intel Alder Lake CPU, this is the first company to speak upward as far as hinting at newer designs.

At that place is no specifications for either Valkyrie or Racing motherboards by Biostar released yet. In fact, there is no full design reveals made past the visitor. Information technology is also interesting that nosotros exercise not know the type of memory beingness used, whether it be DDR4 or DDR5. It is under rumor that the Valkyrie series volition be Biostar'southward "flagship serial" and that it will probably require the newest form of retentiveness available, being the DDR5.

Intel Alder Lake series is the company'south twelfth generation Core processor. With Intel sporting a new design for the LGA socket—the LGA1700 is rectangular in shape, and has required multiple manufacturers to immediately come up upwards with compatibility kits for the newest design—Biostar appears to model the newest Racing and Valkyrie motherboards to fit the LGA1700 socket. In fact, upon closer inspection of the two pictures posted on Twitter, it appears to show part of the socket of the LGA1700. Information technology is a safe bet that these 2 series are absolutely Z690 motherboards.

Intel'southward design choice for the LGA1700 socket and utilization of DDR5 memory modules are not the only newest technology the visitor is bringing to the table. The Intel Z690 series is expected to showcase PCIe Gen5 interfacing to be able to apply newer storage concepts and technology, likewise every bit cater to newer graphics processors—a first for consumer lines.

In the Tweet from yesterday, they besides placed two hashtags—"#Rena" and "#Amy." This is in reference to the two mascots that Biostar revealed during their 35th-ceremony celebration. Rena is the mascot for Biostar'due south Valkyrie line, while Amy is the mascot for their Racing line.

There is no current release date for the new Racing and Valkyrie motherboards. However, with Biostar's history with cryptocurrency in their technologies, specially making devices more efficient for crypto mining, is it possible that the company will utilize these new boards in the aforementioned way? Possibly dual-use—gaming and crypto mining? Right now, that is only speculation, and in no mode actual usage of the motherboards.

Source: BIOSTAR