Just after the New Year, many friends around finally pressed the patience to install the machine, basically also aimed at Intel's 12th generation platform, the place to blow must be blown, Intel this upgrade is indeed big, but the spray place can not leave the hand. Many friends are entangled in nothing more than two points, PCIe5.0 and DDR5 memory, which can suffer a lot of "choice difficulty" patients, today to give you answers.
Here we choose two more representative, and the price is also more mainstream motherboard comparison.
In terms of basic power supply configuration, MSI B660M mortar uses 12-way 60A specifications, the third generation of titanium inductors, in the power supply configuration to support i7-12700K or i9-12900K these high-end CPUs are also completely stressful.
Since the two motherboards with the most important power supply have no practical difference in the current hardware environment, scalability is a watershed, the most important of which is nothing more than DDR5 and PCIe5.0.
The MSI B660M mortar uses the B660 form factor, so it can only support DDR4 memory, and the highest memory acceleration frequency is 4800MHz, which is also the top stream in the D4 generation.
In addition to these main differences, such as 2.5G network port and WIFI6 are the same, there is no obvious difference in the expansion interface, the focus is on, how to choose?
The biggest variable of these two motherboards actually exists in the DDR5 memory, if you have the existing DDR4 memory on hand and don't want to add money to replace it, then the MSI B660M mortar may be the most affordable choice. If you are a new installer and have channels to buy the right price of DDR5 memory, then don't think about it, the MSI PRO 690-A DDR5 is very suitable for starting at a price range of 1500 yuan.
Having said all that, in addition to the motherboard, how to match the chassis, power supply, and heat dissipation? Today I will give you a closer analysis.
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summary:
For most players, the cost performance of the MSI B660M mortar may be higher, after all, a 16GB DDR5 naked strip is now more than 1,000 yuan. As for PCIe5.0, it is even more unnecessary to entangle, now PCIe4.0 has not yet been popularized, bandwidth this thing is never too much, but considering the price, this difference is indeed negligible.
The most unsavorable place to install the machine is actually the chassis, power supply and heat dissipation, the motherboard may be easily replaced with the replacement, but these three major pieces will be with many generations of hosts. Of course, this is a personal opinion, if you have different opinions, you can also discuss rationally in the comment area, no matter what, I hope that everyone can install their love machine as soon as possible.