MSI MAG B560M Bazooka

The cheapest and ultimately most basic of MSI's MAG offerings for B560 is the Bazooka. Following the trend of military-inspired naming, the MSI MAG B560M Bazooka is a micro-ATX option, with an interesting take on a war-like theme. It is using a shade of green for the power delivery and chipset heatsinks, as well as an M.2 heatsink which covers the PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 slot. Even the memory slots follow a similar theme, with alternating green and black slots, with an all-black PCB.

In regards to PCIe support, MSI includes just one full-length slot operating at PCIe 4.0 x16, with two PCIe 3.0 x1 slots. The storage capabilities consist of one PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 slot which includes an M.2 heatsink, one PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 slot, and six SATA ports. The SATA ports include two with straight angled connectors, although all six include support for RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 arrays. In the top-right hand corner arefour memory slots, with support for DDR4-5066 and up to 128 GB of capacity.

Although there's no Type-C connectivity on the B560M Bazooka, MSI does include two USB 3.2 G2 Type-A, two USB 3.2 G1 Type-A, and two USB 2.0 ports. At the far left is a PS/2 combo port for legacy peripherals, while there's also one HDMI and one DisplayPort video output for users planning to utilize Intel's UHD integrated graphics. For networking, there's a single Realtek RTL8125B 2.5 GbE controller, while the board's three 3.5 mm audio jacks is powered by a Realtek ALC897 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 4
  • Mr 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.

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