ASUS Prime H610M-K D4 Budget DDR4 Intel 12th Gen Workhorse

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ASUS Prime H610M-K D4 Budget DDR4 Intel 12th Gen workhorse
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Sometimes you don't need a bunch of bells and whistles for your Gaming or Office PC build, and something cheap and cheerful will fit the bill.
ASUS Prime range is usually a good mixture of price and features, and if you are using a lower end budget Intel 12th or 13th Gen CPU do you really need more?

Intel® H610 (LGA 1700) mic-ATX motherboard with DDR4, PCIe 4.0, M.2 slot, Realtek 1 Gb Ethernet, HDMI®, D-Sub, USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, SATA 6 Gbps, COM header, RGB header
Intel® LGA 1700 socket: Ready for 12th Gen Intel® processors
Comprehensive cooling: PCH heatsink and Fan Xpert
Ultrafast connectivity: 32Gbps M.2 slot, Realtek 1 Gb Ethernet and USB 3.2 Gen 1 support
5X Protection III: Multiple hardware safeguards for all-round protection

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[uglybob]

Very budget but has a lot of features ! Great video, thanks Mike and Kath

[Lennox]

I've used the itx version of this board and a i3 12100 ram runs at 3200mhz no worries.

[junster]

Gonna build my pc this week thx for the review

I3 13100f
Gtx 1660super
16gb corsair 3200mhz

[UltraGameWorld]

The missing ARGB header on the H610 motherboards is a let down as well as the lack of additional fan headers. You can still use the H610 motherboards for a gaming PC but B660 motherboards are better for features, the issue with B660 is the price as if you can get them for under £100 then they are fine but at nearer to £150 they are just too expensive compared to the AMD boards. Right now I would say a 12100f with H610 motherboard is a good budget option but I would use the Ryzen 5600x with B550 motherboards instead of the 12400f with B660 motherboards.

[peermancolin]

great board. I have it in one of my rigs

[WilliamAndrewPhilipBodie]

Mike's Review is Worthy of a Support comment & a Like 🙂

[MyKharli]

They work well with a 12400f and the cheapest 3070 you can find,

[UltimateTechHub]

I would use an i5 for this board. Anything higher would need a better motherboard. Good price for a first time PC builder or a PC for just basic web surfing and office use.

[brunovincent]

At minute 6:30 you say something that sounds like "you can use armory crate" but you don't recommend it...what do you mean by that?

[Maraxion]

Great vid.
Any idea where this board meets its CPU match in terms of power and VRM? It seems it might thermal throttle on high end cpus. So the higher end cpus with power/turbopower of 125/253W is surely out and the I5-12600 with 65/117W should be safe. But what about the middle ground like the I5-13600/14600 65/154W?

[CharlyDS]

Well I'm jumping the gun on this motherboard finally. Found that there's an H610M-E version too, slightly more expensive, 2 M.2 slots, 1 more fan, DisplayPort but two less USB2 ports in the back. So I'll stick to K. Do you know if there's some limitation in the type of NMVE disk you can use in the M.2 slot? I think PCI-E mode is better than SATA mode but this is PCI-3 so not sure how that affects the performance. Thanks again!

[bigboyanimation]

Is it compatible with I5-12400F Processor LGA 1700 Tray and can it support DDR4 ram speed of 3200mhz? there is something i didn't understand, if you put M.2 SSD you cannot put with it a normal sata SSD?

[connemara_pony]

I’m a first time builder, and am using an i5 12600, and gtx 1660 ti on this board with dual 16gb ddr4… I figured I’d cheap out on the motherboard as it seems to have all the essential features I need. Could it bottleneck my components? Thanks

[mimzawi]

It supports 12th gen right out of the box right ? 13th and 14th needs a bios update or what ?

[hff]

I'm little bit concerned about the VRM temps on this MB 😅 going to use an i5 12400F + RTX 3060 my main purpose is only gaming

[AhmadWahelsa]

I have a question, on the Asus website, i saw "The M.2 slot shares bandwidth with the SATA6G_4 port. When a device in SATA mode is installed on the M.2 slot, the SATA6G_4 port cannot be used"

I'm currently on my ancient B75 and i5 3470, i have 4 SATA storage installed, does this means if i install an NVME drive, will my speed go slower?

Also what does it means with the fourth SATA slot not being able to be used? Do i have to watch out for Nvme drives that somehow is actually a Sata drive?

[harrypotter_petronus]

Hi, will this board be okay for a i5 12500? Or there will be performance bottleneck?

[youssefhindam]

does this mother board work well with i5 12400? in gaming will there be big diffrences between it and higher mother boards?

[CharlyDS]

Very detailed video! I'm a programmer, no gaming here; now on a H310i with a i5 9400. I want to move on to Gen 12 or 13. It seems that the i3 12100 or 13100 are superior to mine right? So I'll go there for an upgrade with a H610M, unfortunately I won't be able to keep the ITX factor, can't get the H610i around here.

[elmarghany]

Does it support generation 14 when i update bios ?