The Intel B560 Motherboard Overview: 30+ Budget Models Starting from $75
by Gavin Bonshor on March 29, 2021 7:00 AM ESTMSI B560M Pro-VDH Wi-Fi & B560M Pro-VDH
Positioned more towards professional and conventional PC users, MSI's Pro Series generally offers popular controller sets with a basic necessity approach. Both the MSI B560M Pro-VDH Wi-Fi and B560M Pro-VDH share much of the same in the way of features, while the Wi-Fi edition comes with an unspecified wireless networking controller. Both models share a black and silver patterned PCB, with small black power delivery heatsinks and a small black chipset heatsink.
The MSI B560M Pro-VDH Wi-Fi and B560M Pro-VDH are both micro-ATX and include one full-length PCIe 4.0 x16 slot, with two PCIe 3.0 x1 slots. For storage, both models include one PCIe 4.0 x4, one PCIe 3.0 x4/SATA M.2, and six SATA ports. Four of the SATA ports have right-angled connectors, with two of them coming with straight-angled connectors, while all of the SATA support RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 arrays. In the top right-hand corner are four memory slots, with support for up to DDR4-5066 and a total capacity of 128 GB.
Between both models, they share two USB 3.2 G2 Type-A, two USB 3.2 G1 Type-A, and two USB 2.0 ports. Both include a Realtek RTL8125 2.5 GbE controller, while the Wi-Fi version comes with an unspecified wireless interface. Powering the three 3.5 mm audio jacks is a Realtek ALC897 HD audio codec. A trio of video outputs includes one HDMI 2.0b, one DisplayPort 1.4, and one D-Sub that allow users to use Intel's integrated UHD graphics. Finishing off the rear panel is a PS/2 combo port which is designed for legacy peripherals.
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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 ?