The 12th generation Core has been officially listed last year, followed by the first batch of Z690 motherboards, for professional overclocking players, Z690 motherboard is naturally the most suitable, but the demand for overclocking is not particularly high mainstream players, they hope that the more cost-effective B660 motherboard listing.
This year's CES, B660 motherboard officially released, the new B660 motherboard continues many of the new features of the Z690, better power supply performance, XMP 3.0 memory overclocking support, higher bandwidth PCIe bus, which provides mainstream gamers with more balanced hardware performance. GIGABYTE also took advantage of the first batch of B660 motherboards to launch a series of new B660 motherboard products, IT Home has received GIGABYTE B660 AORUS MASTER DDR4 motherboard (hereinafter referred to as "GIGABYTE Super Eagle B660 D4 Motherboard"), next we look at the specific details of the new B660 motherboard through the picture appreciation.
Gigabyte Super Eagle B660 D4 adopts a standard ATX form factor, the overall visual appearance shape, M.2 interface, South Bridge chip part has a large area of gray heat dissipation armor, can quickly take away the waste heat generated during work.
The IO panel area adopts a full-coverage heat sink design, and the high-quality thermal pad can quickly take away the heat generated in the core area of the motherboard. The 2-ounce copper circuit board provides better electrical performance and power assurance, and helps the motherboard dissipate heat efficiently through the rapid thermal conductivity of copper.
Gigabyte Super Eagle B660 D4 motherboard adopts 16+1+1 power phase design, in which the processor core part provides 60A Dr MOS power supply, and the 12th generation Core adopts a new hybrid architecture, so the BIOS configuration is also different from the previous motherboard products.
Gigabyte Super Eagle B660 D4 motherboard supports two modes for players to choose between game and maximum performance, of which the game mode uses the full computing power of the P core to bring more red power control and temperature control, while the maximum performance mode opens all cores to better play a greater performance advantage in multi-threaded scenarios. Memory supports XMP 3.0 overclocking technology with support for DDR4 memory up to 5600MHz and higher.
The GIGABYTE Super Eagle B660 D4 motherboard supports Smart Fan 6 technology, with 8 hybrid fan sockets, 7 temperature sensors and 2 external temperature sensor sockets on the motherboard to support smart fan start-stop technology. The fan curve setting has been increased from the original 5 points to 7, and the fan speed control is more precise.
Gigabyte's B660 D4 motherboard offers 3 PCIe slots, including the PCIe 4.0 x16 specification near the processor, plus 1 PCIe 3.0 x4 and 1 PCIe 3.0 x1 slot.
Under thermal armor, there are also 3 M.2 interfaces, of which 2 M.2 interfaces support the PCIe 4.0 x4 specification, which can bring up to 64Gb/s theoretical bandwidth performance and 7000MB/s NVMe SSD read performance. Four SATA3 interfaces are also available to facilitate the expansion of mass storage devices.
Gigabyte's B660 D4 motherboard also supports a USB 3.2 Gen2x2 Type-C interface, which can bring 20Gbps of tell data transfer, and the previous version of the USB 3.2 Gen2 interface is also integrated on the motherboard. In terms of networking, gigabyte super eagle B660 D4 motherboard provides a 2.5Gbps high-speed network port, compatible with 10/100/1000/2500Mbps RJ45 network interface. It also features an Intel Wi-Fi 6 wireless network card by default and integrated Bluetooth 5.2 for better network connectivity and data transfer speeds.
In other interface configurations, GIGABYTE Super Eagle B660 D4 motherboard provides 4 USB 2.0 ports, 4 USB 3.2 ports, 1 USB 3.2 Type-C port, 1 DP interface, 1 HDMI 2.0 port and 1 set of audio ports, in order to facilitate the expansion of the lights in the chassis, GIGABYTE Super Eagle B660 D4 motherboard also provides 2 RGB pins and 2 ARGB pins. As the main motherboard of the follow-up 12th generation Core, gigabyte super eagle B660 D4 motherboard has been officially released, with the new 12th generation Core desktop processor, it will definitely bring a cross-level performance experience.