The Intel B560 Motherboard Overview: 30+ Budget Models Starting from $75
by Gavin Bonshor on March 29, 2021 7:00 AM ESTGIGABYTE B560M D3H
Finishing up our look at GIGABYTE's B560 models, we come to what seems like its entry-level option (at the time of writing). The GIGABYTE B560M D3H looks similar to the B560 DS3H visually, with a black and off-white printed PCB, with a black power delivery heatsink cooling the CPU section of the VRMand a black chipset heatsink which resembles a shield. GIGABYTE is advertising a direct 6+2 phase power delivery and requires a single 8-pin 12 V ATX CPU power input to deliver power to the processor.
Unique to other GIGABYTE B560 models, the B560M D3H includes a legacy PCI slot, one PCIe 3.0 x1 slot,with two full-length PCIe slots with the top slot operating at PCIe 4.0 x16 and the second slot locked down to PCIe 3.0 x4. We have plenty of storage options for a budget board, with one PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2, one PCIe 3.0 x4/SATA M.2 slot, and six SATA ports, which do include support for RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 arrays. Four of the SATA ports feature straight angled connectors. Focusing on the memory, there are four slots with support for up to 128 GB, although GIGABYTE hasn't revealed its memory QVL list at the time of writing.
On the rear panel are a single USB 3.2 G1 Type-C, three USB 3.2 G1 Type-A, and two USB 2.0 ports, with four video outputs including one D-sub, one DVI-D, one HDMI, and one DisplayPort. For networking, GIGABYTE includes an unspecified Intel Gigabit Ethernet port, with six 3.5 mm audio jacks powered by an unspecified Realtek HD audio codec. Finishing off the rear panel is a PS/2 combo port for legacy keyboard and mice.
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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 ?