The Intel B560 Motherboard Overview: 30+ Budget Models Starting from $75
by Gavin Bonshor on March 29, 2021 7:00 AM ESTASUS ROG Strix B560-G Gaming WIFI
For users looking for a premium-looking micro-ATX board, the ASUS ROG Strix B560-G Gaming WIFI is a fabled Gene'esq board in all but name; perhaps the G naming stands for Gene. Although not as high-end as Gene modes in the past, the Strix series offers gamers a more mid-ranged gaming experience, with consisting styling throughout. The design consists of a mainly black color scheme, with black and grey patterning on the PCB, and modern graffiti-styled ASUS designs on the rear panel cover and chipset heatsink.
Looking at the board's specifications, ASUS includes two full-length PCIe slots including one PCIe 4.0 x16 and one PCIe 3.0 x4 slot, with two additional PCIe 3.0 x1 slots. For storage, there are two M.2 slots including one PCIe 4.0 x4 and one PCIe 3.0 x4/SATA, with six SATA ports that feature support for RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 arrays. In the top-right hand corner are four memory slots, with support for up to DDR4-5000 and capacity for up to 128 GB of memory. ASUS is advertising the B560-G Gaming WIFI to include a 10-phase power delivery featuring teamed power stages, with one 8-pin 12 V ATX CPU power input.
ASUS includes a single USB 3.2 G2x2 Type-C port on the rear panel, as well as oneType-C port designed for audio devices, one USB 3.2 G1 Type-A, and six USB 2.0 ports. There are two video outputs including an HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.4, with one Intel I225-V 2.5 GbE port and an Intel AX200 Wi-Fi 6 CNVi offering BT 5.1 connectivity. Finishing off the rear panel is a small BIOS flashback button, and five 3.5 mm audio jacks, and S/PDIF optical output controlled by a SupremeFX S1220A HD audio codec.
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limitedaccess - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
Rocket Lake CPUs have 20 PCIe (4.0) lanes off the CPU. This a departure from previous generations in terms of lane count. Comet Lake (and older) for Intel have 16 lanes off the CPU.4 of those lanes are connected to the "first" m.2 slot of B560/Z590 motherboards. 10th gen CPUs don't have those lanes even as PCIe 3.0. Previous generation motherboards have all their m.2 slots using lanes connected to the chipset.
jrbales@outlook.com - Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - link
Thanks for the explanation. My AMD X570 has PCIE 4 lanes from both CPU and chipset, so this is my first build wheres I'm running up against this limitation. Now it all makes sense and fortunately, I did place my Samsung 970 EVO into the 2nd M.2 slot. Thanks again! And old dog CAN learn something new!ScottSoapbox - Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - link
There are three typos in the first paragraph that Word or a browser would catch if you took 10 seconds to check. Hint: words need spaces between them.Linustechtips12#6900xt - Thursday, April 8, 2021 - link
am I the only one who noticed the CMOS battery on the wifi thing in the asrock board?? lolutmode - Saturday, April 10, 2021 - link
has reaktek fixed speed dropping issue in their RTL8125B 2.5G NICmammuthus - Sunday, June 20, 2021 - link
Guys, witch one I should choose between ASUS ROG Strix B560-I Gaming WIFI and MSI MPG B560I Gaming Edge Wi-Fi?aigo - Thursday, July 29, 2021 - link
There is no sound through HDMI ports regardless of the OS; Linux, Windows. Definitely not a multimedia board, and neither it is for gaming.dwoodcock - Friday, August 13, 2021 - link
After messing about with this board all day trying to get RAID working I find out it doesn't support RAID at all!!!BadConfiguration - Thursday, October 28, 2021 - link
Hi Gavin, will the M.2_2 (marked ultra m2) use the pcie lanes from chipset ? Or would it use the pcie lanes from cpu ?