Review MSI MAG B660M Mortar WIFI DDR4 Review: B660 Chipset Bliss?

[Admin]

The MSI B660M Mortar WIFI DDR4 is designed for mainstream users who don’t plan to overclock the CPU, but still want to get the most out of their 12 Gen Alder Lake processor. The Mortar comes with two M.2 sockets, six SATA ports, a premium audio codec, USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C port, 2.5 GbE and Wi-Fi 6 networking and more for $189.99.

MSI MAG B660M Mortar WIFI DDR4 Review: B660 Chipset Bliss? : Read more

 

[Co BIY]

How is this review not on the front page?

 

[render.man]

This b660 motherboard is overpriced. It costs like a Gigabyte gaming z690

 

[Xtremepr0]

Inexpensive? Now 190$ for a mobo is inexpensive, oh jeez, the market...

 

[shady28]

So if I read this correctly, B660 does in fact allow overclocking? That's pretty big news actually.

 

[render.man]

So if I read this correctly, B660 does in fact allow overclocking? That's pretty big news actually.

only memory oc, not cpu
b460 and b560 motherboards were released at a reasonable price ; B660 doesn't make sense at all at these prices

 

[shady28]

only memory oc, not cpu
b460 and b560 motherboards were released at a reasonable price ; B660 doesn't make sense at all at these prices

Article says they were able to do all core OC. They just couldn't control the V/F curve.

 

[render.man]

Article says they were able to do all core OC. They just couldn't control the V/F curve.

you can run all cores at stock maxium speed
you can't change the multiplier with a B chipset

 

[shady28]

you can run all cores at stock maxium speed
you can't change the multiplier with a B chipset

Ok, I see the distinction. Technically correct, however most people are lucky to be able to set all core at max turbo. 10850K for example has a max single core turbo 5.2Ghz at stock, most people who 'overclock' on these shoot for 5.1Ghz all core. In my book this is actually a form of overclocking as the 10850K would never do all core 5.1Ghz by default.

It's just that you are limited to the max (5.2Ghz) single core speed, but can set all cores to that max. You probably won't be able to cool the thing without something like a $400+ custom open loop water setup beyond that anyway.

 

[render.man]

Another miss: this motherborad doesn't have PCIe 5.0 for GPU
There are also news about motherbords with b660 ( Asus, Asrock) with bclok overclock potential

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8diXDeTDCbo

If this motherboard doesn't have this feature it's another miss.

 

[Ai90]

Another miss: this motherborad doesn't have PCIe 5.0 for GPU

Not big loss to be honest. There are no GPUs in Market, which require such bandwidth.

 

[shady28]

Test setup in the article for this board says it used DDR5, but this is a DDR4 board.