The Intel B560 Motherboard Overview: 30+ Budget Models Starting from $75
by Gavin Bonshor on March 29, 2021 7:00 AM ESTMSI 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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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 ?