The Intel B560 Motherboard Overview: 30+ Budget Models Starting from $75
by Gavin Bonshor on March 29, 2021 7:00 AM ESTMSI MPG B560I Gaming Edge Wi-Fi
The MSI MPG B560I Gaming Edge Wi-Fi is its only mini-ITX at present on B560, with a mixture of fairly premium quality controllers and features based on its Performance Gaming series. The design front includes an all-black PCB with metallic grey heatsinks, which includes the rear panel cover, power delivery heatsinks, and one M.2 heatsink. Providing power to the motherboard is a 24-pin 12 V ATX motherboard power input, in which a single 8-pin 12 V ATX input provides power to the CPU.
Along the bottom of the board is a single full-length PCIe 4.0 x16 slot, with ample storage capabilities on the mini-ITX form factor. The storage is headed up by one PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 slot, one PCIe 3.0 x4/SATA M.2 slot, and four straight-angled SATA, including support for RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 arrays. In regards to memory support, the MSI MPG B560I Gaming Edge WIFI includes two memory slots, with support for up to 64 GB, and can accommodate up to DDR4-5200 memory.
On the rear panel, MSI includes one USB 3.2 G2 Type-C, one USB 3.2 G2 Type-A, and four USB 2.0 ports. For users planning on using Intel's integrated UHD graphics, there's an HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4 video output pairing and three 3.5 mm audio jacks powered by a Realtek ALC897 HD audio codec. The networking capabilities consist of a Realtek RTL8125B 2.5 GbE controller, with Intel's latest AX210 Wi-Fi 6E CNVi providing both wireless and BT 5.2 connectivity.
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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 ?