The 12th generation Core new mount B660 motherboard is officially launched, compared to the Z690 series motherboard, the B660 is to ensure a powerful performance release, but also bring a more affordable price experience. GIGABYTE B660 AORUS MASTER DDR4 motherboard (hereinafter referred to as "GIGABYTE Super Eagle B660 D4 Motherboard") is also officially sold to the market, with a price of 1699 yuan, with a strong power supply guarantee, bringing more stable and balanced performance release.
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. In addition, 3 sets of M.2 interfaces are supported, 2 of which support the PCIE4.0 protocol, which can achieve a read and write speed of 7000MB/s. Gigabyte Super Eagle B660 D4 motherboard also supports USB 3.2 Gen2x2 Type-C interface, which can bring 20Gbps high-speed data transfer, and the previous version of 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.
At present, gigabyte super eagle B660 D4 motherboard has been fully sold, priced at 1699 yuan. For a more cost-effective 12th Generation Core performance experience, this motherboard is not wrong.