The Intel B560 Motherboard Overview: 30+ Budget Models Starting from $75
by Gavin Bonshor on March 29, 2021 7:00 AM ESTASRock B560M-ITX/ac
ASRock's only mini-ITX model announced so far for the Intel B560 chipset is the B560M-ITX/ac. It's a typical budget-focused small form factor offering from ASRock, with a simplistic black and grey patterned PCB, with a decent-sized silverrear panel cover and combined power delivery heatsink, with a small silver chipset heatsink. ASRock is also advertising a 6-phase power delivery, with one 8-pin 12 V ATX CPU power input.
Due to its small mini-ITX PCB, there are obvious limitations on expansion slot support, which is most noticeable in both memory and PCIe slots. The ASRock B560M-ITX/ac includes one full-length PCIe 4.0 x16 slot, with two memory slots capable of handing up to DDR4-4600 memory with a maximum capacity of 64 GB across two memory slots. ASRock includes just one M.2 slot which operates at PCIe 4.0 x4 and includes support for SATA drives, as well as four straight-angled SATA ports with RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 array compatibilities.
On the rear panel of the B560M-ITX/ac, ASRock includes two USB 3.2 G1 Type-A and two USB 2.0 ports, but it does include a front panel USB 3.2 G1 Type-C header. There are also two video outputs including one HDMI and one DisplayPort, with a PS/2 combo port for legacy peripherals, and three 3.5 mm audio jacks powered by a Realtek ALC897 HD audio codec. Last but not least, the B560M-ITX/ac is using an Intel-based Wi-Fi 5 CNVi for both wireless and BT 4.2 connectivity, with a single Intel I219-V Gigabit Ethernet controller.
ASRock looks to have found a very attractive price for the B560M-ITX/ac with an MSRP of $95. Thismakes it a very attractive option for users to use as the foundation for a cost-effective small form factor option combined with Intel's 11th gen Rocket Lake processors.
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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.