AMD and Intel Chipset Names Explained 

This was surprisingly helpful, even though I’m not buying a motherboard anytime soon.

def coming back to this when i build a pc. i finally figured out intel's numbering scheme for their cpus, but i couldn't figure out at all what made a motherboard cheaper or more expensive

Riley: The numbers don't mean anything. X399: Guess I'll just leave.

Okay, the Ford F150 joke got me. Take your angry like, damnit.

Cries in B450M - only has two fan headers. Can't connect a 3rd top case fan unless I get a splitter cable.

Could you guys do a video about NVidia's low latency option in their graphics driver? Like what kind of things you give up to get the lower latency, does it have a performance impact and such and is this different on GTX cards compared to RTX cards or just slower on lower end cards?

I'm looking at mobos and CPUs to upgrade my PC currently and couldn't understand what the chipsets meant. This was rather helpful. Thanks!

Fantastic, clear explanation. Great writing, Jon

When I built my new AMD 5000 system, the B550 motherboard I ended up with actually had MORE I/O than X570 of comparable price (around the $200 mark). I would have had to go to the ridiculous $500 level boards to get more from X570, and IIRC, similar options existed for B550.

Thank you so much for this, I have had trouble for some time understanding the intel chipset naming scheme so this was an amazing help!

I'm always happy to see Riley in a video! Can't explain why, became a fav

Quite helpful. Thanks Riley and Jon!

Thanks for info I never thought that I needed to know these

Very informative indeed thank you I've always wondered what those letters and numbers meant in those motherboards!

Very useful and informative video and also hilarious 😂 i never knew there was a Q variation for intel motherboards good thing the video also addressed Where/When it was used Pretty awesome video as always

This is informative. Will watch this video again if need. Thanks!

I cant believe it took so long to make this useful video. well done guys I learned a lot!

4 million subs congrats ltt🥳🥳

These videos are very helpful but a website with a nice library of infographics to quickly reference afterwards would be even better.

I love these videos. Please keep them coming!

This is super helpful for someone like me, who had no idea what the numbers and letters meant

Thank you for doing this episode !!!

Campbell's Alphabet Soup! at the end! 🤣 Good one Riley👍

The intro was awesome!

0:12 "You should pay close attention to these names because they tell you what chipset the motherboard has." 0:20 _using image of ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VI HERO which doesn't include chipset in its name_

Nowadays you can have an AMD 5700X paired with an AMD 5700 XT, on an AMD X570 chipset not confusing at all

I need this information in an excel spreadsheet just to buy a new MB

Thanks! This is first time I have understand motherboard naming!

Really helpful, thank you guys.

Can we also get the CPU names decoded? Especially and.

Great video, for the banding on the background you can add a little bit of noise, and will look smoother. Greetings.

would love one explaining different cpu naming please!!!

This was helpfull !! thankyou so muchhh

Was good but I feel I need more - perhaps an LTT deep dive Riley and Anthony 👍🏾

Thanks for this video it was helpful for me:-)

The numbers Mason, what do they mean?

Thanks for the explanation, its really helps. If you don't mind, could you make a video of Mice Sensor Names Explained please? thanks

Glad I watched this. Now I know which mobo I would buy. Great video, very helpful and informative.

Very well explained!

Liked your explanation. Thanks

The way AMD allowed AM4 to be inter-generational is what i love & appreciate..!😍

Thanks for the video!

Thanks for the info!

Very useful, no more looking for motherboards based on how modern is the i/o

Now do this video again, but for Monitor names (Helpful vid btw, I've always struggled to find the differences between Chipsets)

This was really a good explanation.

This is the video that I loved most in my entire life.

Will you be doing an update on laptop SKUs as well? Current gen Alder lake has the new 4 digit + P naming such as the Intel Core i7-1280P. Although it might not age well since the previous gen Tiger Lake with their 11xxGx naming only lasted for 2 years.

You should do a video on graphics card names, invidia is simple ish, but amd's are more confusing

thank u, exactly what I needed

I don't have any idea Q about series is, thx for explanation it very helpful 😅

This is super helpful 👌👌 thanks ❤️

Riley how I know which motherboards support downloading more RAM please?

Finally a mobo naming guide!!! WOOO

Great. Now only if you guys could decode Sony's mess, we could have finally be transformed into an advanced intergalactic civilization

this video is so necesary, thank you

I use AMP by cube coders. And yes its great and pretty easy. Their support line is very helpful also!

Actually such a useful video

i would love a f150 chipset

Me literally yesterday: mmmm I need to choose a motherboard for my first build but i know nothing about it, I wonder what those alpha-numeric codes stands for LMG: let's cover this in a video on techquickie thanks guys, this was really helpful

I get so excited when I see there is a new video featuring Riley! 😊 😜

Thanks.. i just start to comeback build a pc. So helpful.

I recently had to learn chipsets since I had to do a bios update, turns out they are super important! Or your windows won’t update if the bios version is to old. Lol

Good videos thanks

it seems i only do a pc upgrade when amd does a socket change, so i'm excited for am5

I was gonna go for the F150, good to know it only runs Deisel Lake CPUs. Thanks for the info!

Very helpful! They really over complicated it and you explained it all in about 5 minutes.

Have you covered what does it mean to have RAID something storage?

I needed this

i feel my brain expanding thank you !

I have an old 4690k setup, with Asus B85 PRO-Gamer mobo and it has the multiplier overcloking feature. I overcloked it to 4,7GHz and it works really good.

I'm learning a lot

Can your please explain xeon processor names?

4:51 300 series also Bristol ridge

I love that Riley always sounds sarcastic

0:03 Ahh yes...the F150 chipset how could I forget

I can't believe any company still charges extra for overclocking. It's pure anti-consumer garbage. Imagine having to pay extra for a phone that can charge via car charger, or a calculator that can use the number 6.

Literally planning a big upgrade for my PC and one of the things was a motherboard. This was a godsend.

Great! Ty!

Thx a lot!

Please make a video explaining the Snapdragon naming scheme, i can't make heads or tails of it when it comes to anything other than the "flagships", if that term is applicable

3:36 wow i didn't know my motherboard was this fancy

Intel: just buy Z AMD: just buy X if only someone would make a Y! XYZ would be the pinnacle of all chipset!

Ah, computing with captain keys. Never gets old.

This came out just in time. I was thinking about upgrading my motherboard from an A320, and I couldn't decide between the b550 or b450, since I couldn't tell the difference between the two. Also explains why I couldn't enable xmp for some reason, it always stays in black screen after I enable the thing (why is it even there as an option if it won't let me) and have to resort to resetting bios.

you should do the same for the letters in desktop CPUs and the mishmatch of letters in laptop CPUs

1:34 bro, thats an AMD motherboard

this was really helpful. it really is needlessly complicated, like amd adding 2 extra numbers for no reason

hello? if you know where i can find the mapping relation between cpus and motherboards? can you tell me?

Love this guy

Thanks bro....

finnely a good explenation

Love the info. I've never built and before but I have recently ordered a Z-690 board to replace my aging build which has like a ?3?? Chipset by making a new build. Prior to that machine I was on a P5Q-Pro so Intel must have had different name scheme in 2008 with Core 2 Duo era stuff

Thank you Sir

I love that he probably wrote that F150 joke and read the script over a few times before filming and still couldn't help but laugh I think I laughed too hard at that joke

When i planned to do 12100f but just read that sa/io voltage is locked on non K skus, i think i'll fallback to 10100f since their sa/io voltage. could anyone here post or verify if cometlake F series below i7 10700F could do 3600mhz-3800mhz with ease? thank you :D

Not sure about Optane, but overclocking and CrossFire/SLI have nothing to do with the chipset and are artificial limitations to create market segmentation, forced upon mobo manufacturers and implemented in the BIOS, if at all. The latter used to depend on the chipset back in the northbridge era but now the GPUs are connected directly to the CPU and the chipset is about as related to it as the case color. BIOS can easily disable overclocking, SLI not so much and it can be patched to work on unsupported chipsets. The only thing that depends on the chipset is the I/O from the chipset, any CPU that has the same connection to the chipset can work with it as long as it fits in the socket and the BIOS supports it, especially on AMD, where it is just a glorifed I/O expander and not an actual southbridge. All AM4 chipsets are compatible with all AM4 CPUs after updating to the latest BIOS, AM5 chipsets are incompatible only because of the socket. Even a Raptor Lake CPU could work with all Intel chipsets since ICH6, the only reason it doesn't is Intel changing the socket every 2 generations. DMI is just rebranded PCIe with some vendor defined messages, and AMD chipsets openly use PCIe. Which means that there are no technical limitation to stop other companies from making their own chipsets, at least for AMD, but CPU makers prefer to keep their chipset monopoly, so they don't allow it. If other companies could make their own chipsets then there would be no such BS with unrelated features depending on the chipset model.

You forgot about Intel's X series chipsets. Come on Riley!!!! Get with the game!

You forgot about mobile chipset motherboards like Intel HM370 for 9th gen and HM470 for 10th gen mobile CPUs

What about all the letters after the dash on AMD boards?