The Intel B560 Motherboard Overview: 30+ Budget Models Starting from $75
by Gavin Bonshor on March 29, 2021 7:00 AM ESTASRock B560M-HDV-A & B560M-HDV
Another series of micro-ATX motherboards within ASRock's B560 stack includes the B560M-HDV-A and the B560M-HDV. Both models are visually identical with grey and black patterned printed PCBs, with a small silver chipset heatsink, but includes no heatsinks for the power delivery. The only difference between both models is that the B560M-HDV-A comes with an M.2 Key-E slot for users to install a wireless interface.
The ASRock B560M-HDV-A micro-ATX motherboard
Both models include just one full-length PCIe 4.0 x16 slot, with two PCIe 3.0 x1 slots, as well as two M.2 slots. One of the M.2 slots is PCIe 4.0 x4 enabled, while the other includes support for both PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA drives. ASRock also includes four SATA ports, two with straight-angled and two with right-angled slots, with all four featuring support for RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 arrays. The ASRock B560M-HDV-A and B560M-HDV have just two memory slots, with support for up to DDR4-5000 and a total capacity of up to 64 GB.
The ASRock B560M-HDV-A rear panel (with M.2 Key-E slot)
The rear panel of both models includes four USB 3.2 G1 Type-A and two USB 2.0 ports. The only difference is that the A version includes an M.2 Key-E slot for users to install a wireless interface, which is located next to the three 3.5 mm audio jacks which are powered by a Realtek ALC897 HD audio codec. ASRock also includes three video outputs including a D-sub, DVI-D, and HDMI, with one PS/2 combo port for legacy keyboard and mice. Last on the rear panel of both boards is one Ethernet port driven by an Intel I219-V Gigabit controller.
At the time of writing, ASRock hasn't given us any information on the price of the B560M-HDV-A, although we do know the B560M-HDV has an MSRP of $75.
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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.