The Intel B560 Motherboard Overview: 30+ Budget Models Starting from $75
by Gavin Bonshor on March 29, 2021 7:00 AM ESTASUS TUF Gaming B560-PlusWIFI
TUF or the Ultimate Force used to be notable for its tough and rugged Sabertooth models, but a couple of years ago, ASUSrebranded TUFto thegaming series we have today, which is designed to offervalue at a reasonable price point.ASUS has unveiled three TUF Gaming branded models (at the time of writing). This includes two micro-ATX and the sole ATX sized model, the ASUS TUF Gaming B560-Plus WIFI. The aesthetic follows the same black, grey and yellow accented design we have become accustomed to with the redefined TUF series. ASUS is advertising an 8+1 phase power delivery, with one 8-pin 12 V ATX CPU power input.
Being an ATX sized model, the ASUS TUF Gaming B560-Plus WIFI has plenty of PCIe options available, including two full-length PCIe slots and three PCIe 3.0 x1 slots. The top of the two full-length PCIe slots operates at PCIe 4.0 x16, while the second slot is electronically locked down to PCIe 3.0 x4. The board includes two M.2 slots, including one PCIe 4.0 x4 and one with support for both PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA drives. There's also a total of six SATA ports including four in the bottom right-hand corner with straight angled ports, although all six include support for RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 arrays. For memory support, four slots allow users to install up to 128 GB, with supported speeds of DDR4-5000.
On the rear panel is two USB 3.2 G2 Type-A, one USB 3.2 G1 Type-C, two USB 3.2 G1 Type-A, and three USB 2.0 ports. It is using an Intel Wi-Fi 6 CNVi, although ASUS hasn't specified which at this time, as well as a Realtek RTL8125 2.5 GbE controller. There's an HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.4 video output pairing, with five 3.5 mm audio jacks and S/PDIF optical output which are powered by an unspecified HD audio codec.
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FriendlySeaCow - Monday, March 29, 2021 - link
The MSI MPG B560I Gaming Edge Wi-Fi has been announced and its features fully released, so you can update that page. Incidentally, there's also a typo in the MSI table, where you have "ATX" instead of "ITX" under the Size Column for the B560I.Looks like a really nice board: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MPG-B560I-GAMING-E...
Jorgp2 - Monday, March 29, 2021 - link
Why didn't they enable the full 8 sata ports for this chipset, X299 is dead anyway.Linustechtips12#6900xt - Thursday, April 8, 2021 - link
because who uses 8 freaking sata ports at a time, i think the MAX I've ever used is 4Mr Perfect - Monday, March 29, 2021 - link
Nice round up. Any chance you'll do something similar for H570? They don't seem to cost much more, but have some additional chipset features.Scour - Monday, March 29, 2021 - link
B560 also with 6x SATA, PCIe 4.0 and also on ATX-boards, sound good for me.sheltem - Monday, March 29, 2021 - link
According to this Reddit post, the Asrock B560 ITX has pretty good VRM's:https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/lao3ym/z59...
BrokenCrayons - Monday, March 29, 2021 - link
Finally some decently priced motherboards are getting attention they deserve! I'm really happy to see and read about hardware in a price segment I would actually buy and use.evilpaul666 - Monday, March 29, 2021 - link
The 10/11 series would be so much more interesting if it had ECC support.jrbales@outlook.com - Monday, March 29, 2021 - link
I'm in the process of building a new system for my sister. Bought the ASUS Prime B560M-A at a price competitive with the B460 boards. A very nice mATX board that was nice to work with. One observation and one question. I bought the optional Intel WIFI card & antenna kit to use with the WIFI bracket. On the plus side, it works great and I didn't have to run ethernet cable across the room I was building it in. The negative is that the WIFI bracket has to be attached to the motherboard, using really tiny screws from the rear of the board. That probably took the longest thing in the build as I'd have to try to balance the MB, keep the bracket in place over the holes and the card inserted in the slot, while keeping the tiny screws on the screwdriver long enough to screw in. Now for the question. It involves the first M.2 slot, above the GPU. It's PCIE 4.0. According to everything printed by ASUS, if you use a 10th generation CPU, the slot is disabled, leaving only the second M.2 beneath the GPU. I understand the part about needing an 11th gen CPU to get PCIE 4, but shouldn't the first slot support a PCIE 3.0 M.2 SSD? I'm used to these slots being backward compatible and on my AMD X570 board, you can use either PCIE 3 or 4 SSDs in both slots. Does anyone knows if the B56s0 slot 1 is backward compatible?mobilefrenzy - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
M.2 Slot 1 on B560 and Z590 mobos don't work with 10th gen CPUs, as they don't have the additional PCIe lanes to enable them.