The Intel B560 Motherboard Overview: 30+ Budget Models Starting from $75
by Gavin Bonshor on March 29, 2021 7:00 AM ESTASUS ROG Strix B560-A Gaming WIFI
ASUS's ROG Strix B560-A Gaming WIFI is another model focused on gamers building a new system on a budget but opts for a slightly different aesthetical design. For the A model, ASUS has gone with a sleek silver and black patterned PCB, with silver heatsinks with subtle pink highlighting and an RGB-enabled ROG logo on the rear panel cover. The ROG Strix B560-F and B560-A Gaming WIFI are similar visually,apart from the storage configuration, the color scheme, and an additional PCIe 3.0 x1 slot on the A.
The ASUS ROG Strix B560-A Gaming WIFI includes one full-length PCIe 4.0 x16, one full-length PCIe 3.0 x4, and three PCIe 3.0 x1 slots. In regards to storage, there are two M.2 slots with the top slot operating at PCIe 4.0 x4, and the second slot at PCIe 3.0 x4 with support for SATA drives. A total of six SATA ports sit on the right-hand side of the board and include support for RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 arrays. At the time of writing, ASUS hasn't published its memory QVL list for B560, but we do know the four memory slots will support up to 128 GB of DDR4-3200.
At present, we don't have a view of what's on the rear panel, but we do know the ROG Strix B560-A Gaming WIFI includes a Realtek-based2.5 GbE Ethernet controller, an Intel AX200 Wi-Fi 6 CNVi, and it is using a Supreme FX S1220A HD audio codec. ASUS is also advertising two video outputs including one HDMI 2.0 and one DisplayPort 1.4.
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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 ?