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-F Gaming WIFI
The second in ASUS's Republic of Gamers B560 series is the ROG Strix B560-F Gaming WIFI which is one offive (at the time of writing) available Alphabet Strix models. The ASUS ROG Strix B560-F Gaming WIFI offers a mixture of premium features commonly found on its Z590 models but keeping in line with the overall premise of the value element of B560. Its design consists of a typical Strix model, with primarily black heatsinks with Strix graffiti-inspired text. There is also an illuminated RGB ROG logo integrated within the rear panel cover.
Included in the feature set are two full-length PCIe slots including one PCIe 4.0 x16 (top) and one PCIe 3.0 x4 (bottom), with two PCIe 3.0 x1 slots. Storage on the F model consists of three PCIe M.2 slots with one PCIe 4.0 x4 and two with support for PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA drives. Along the right-hand side are six SATA ports arranged in a line with support for RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 arrays. At the time of writing, ASUS hasn't published its QVL memory list, so support is listed as DDR4-3200 in line with Rocket Lake, but we do know that the four available slots will accommodate up to 128 GB of memory.
On the rear panel is plenty of connectivity including one USB 3.2 G2x2 Type-C, two USB 3.2 G2 Type-A, two USB 3.2 G1 Type-A, three USB 2.0 ports, as well as one of ASUS's latest Type-C audio ports. For users of integrated graphics, ASUS includes one HDMI 2.0 and one DisplayPort 1.4 video output, as well as five 3.5 mm audio jacks and S/PDIF optical output driven by a ROG Supreme FX S1220A HD audio codec. On the networking side of things, there's an Intel pairing including an I225-V 2.5 GbE controller and an AX200 Wi-Fi 6 CNVi model. Finishing off the rear panel is a BIOS Flashback button.
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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 ?