Asus launched a heavy gunner motherboard for mid-range young game users in previous years, part of the TIF GAMING esports agent series. However, the heavy gunner is stronger in terms of power supply and expansion, as well as materials such as sound card network cards. And this year, ASUS launched the TIF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 Heavy Gunner Motherboard. Because of the characteristics of the Intel B-series chipset, this motherboard is more suitable for pairing with 12th generation non-K Core processors. But because of its excellent power supply design and high-quality thermal armor, it is no problem to cope with the high-end 12th generation Core K series processor, and this time we will also use a high-end 12th generation Core processor to test the strength of this motherboard.
01 ASUS TUF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 Heavy Gunner Motherboard Introduction
The ASUS TIF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 Heavy Gunner Motherboard uses a standard M-ATX form factor of 24.4×24.4cm, which is basically suitable for most chassis except ITX.
ASUS TIF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 Heavy Gunner Motherboard
The appearance of this motherboard still continues the classic military camouflage elements of TIF GAMING, VRM cooling armor is printed with TIF GAMING LOGO, and the bottom heat sink of thermal armor is made of metal, with a total of two pieces covering the entire power supply area, assisting MOS to dissipate heat.
Heat dissipation armor
Below the heat dissipation armor is the ASUS TIF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 heavy gunner motherboard is a luxurious power supply module, this motherboard is equipped with a 10+1 power phase module, the main controller is ASUS custom ASP2100, with a single phase output of 50A current SIC654 DrMOS design.
Power supply
ASP2100
SIC654
The CPU power interface is 8+4 pins, which can support the high-end 12th generation Core.
The B660's socket is LGA1700, which, like the Z690, is specifically compatible with 12th generation Core, not 10th/11th generation and previous Core processors.
LGA1700
Asus TOF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 Heavy Gunner Motherboard provides 4 memory slots, type DDR4, not DDR5 compatible. Intel B560 period to B series motherboard open memory overclocking, B660 retained this function, so ASUS also on this motherboard using Optimem II memory optimization technology, the frequency in the case of overclocking can reach DDR4 5333MHz.
Memory slot
This motherboard is equipped with two PCIe long slots, the top one is equipped with metal reinforced armor, directly connected to the CPU, supports PCIe 5.0 x16 bandwidth, suitable for all current graphics cards, and the strength of the future. The second root bandwidth is PCIe 3.0 x16.
Graphics card slot
This motherboard offers a total of two M.2 slots, one of which comes with thermal armor and connects directly to the CPU. Movable design, flexible adjustment of the M.2 cooling armor position. Both M.2 slots support PCIe 4.0 and are equipped with the Asus M.2 convenience snap-in, making it easy to secure the M.2 SSD without the need for screws.
M.2 slot
There are a total of 4 SATA interfaces.
HOURS
Asus TIF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 Heavy Gunner Motherboard comes pre-installed with an I/O backplane for easy installation and aesthetics. Equipped with a DP interface and an HDMI interface, the two video interfaces mainly provide support for the 12th generation core display of the core display, which is convenient for creating an entry-level office host. At the same time, the motherboard also has two black USB 2.0 ports, 1 blue USB 3.2 Gen 1, 4 cyan USB 3.2 Gen 2Type-A ports, and a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2Type-C interface, which can provide 20Gb/s transfer rate. This motherboard has WiFi in its name and also provides a Wi-Fi 6 antenna interface at I.O, next to a 2.5G wired network port.
I/O zone
The sound card of this motherboard is ALC 897, a classic Realtek model, not high-end, but Asus this motherboard supports two-way AI noise reduction and DTS sound effect customization technology, two-way AI noise reduction effectively reduces the noise of voice calls when opening black, and cooperates with teammates more comfortably, and DTS game sound customization technology can provide multi-channel surround virtualization for stereo headphones, whether it is games or video and audio can bring immersive enjoyment.
sound card
ASUS TIF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 Heavy Gunner Motherboard Accessories provides regular instruction manuals, faith stickers and WIFI6 enhanced antennas.
fittings
02 ASUS TUF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 Heavy Gunner Motherboard BIOS
Asus TIF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 Heavy Gunner Motherboard upgraded the previous generation of B series motherboard ASUS Performance Enhancement 2.0 technology in the BIOS this time, upgraded to ASUS Performance Enhancement 3.0 (REFERRed to as APE 3.0). This technology can achieve CPU multi-core performance enhancement, but also unlock the 12th generation Core power wall, as long as the heat dissipation standard, after the opening will make the processor performance further enhanced.
Main menu
ASUSPerformance Enhancement 3.0 in the overclocking interface, the default is on, if you do not see APE 3.0 in your BIOS, then it is likely that the BIOS is not updated, to upgrade the new BIOS can see.
ASUSPerformance Enhancement 3.0
Senior
monitor
Because of the support for memory overclocking, the memory SPD parameters can be viewed directly in the BIOS tool menu, which is convenient for adjustment, and there is no need to waste time with the software after powering on.
SPD parameters
03 Combat test
Next, let's do a real-world test, first look at the test platform.
disposition
This time ASUS TIF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 heavy gunner motherboard power supply quality is very good, in order to fully show the strength of this motherboard, processor we choose Core i7-12700K, which is a 12 core 20 threads of high-end 12th generation Core products, while the radiator using Asus ROG STRIX LC 360 RGB WE This 360mm cold row, conventional air cooling is still difficult to suppress the Core i7-12700K. When testing, we turn on ASUSPerformance Enhancement 3.0 by default.
CINEBENCH R20:
First, let's take a look at the results of the CINEBENCH R20, which is capable of testing the single-threaded and multi-threaded benchmark performance of the processor.
CINEBENCH R20
In the test of CINEBENCH R20, the Core i7-12700K single core reached 749, incomparably close to the Core i9-12900K, and the multi-core reached 8735, which is stronger than the Ryzen 9 5900X.
3D Mark：
Below we conduct a 3D Mark test, the test items are fire Strike based on DX11 environment and Time Spy based on DX12 environment.
Time Spy
Fire Strike
In the 3D Mark test, the asus TIF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 heavy gunner motherboard built a platform that exceeded the average level of both Fire Strike and Time Spy.
Game Test:
Next, we tested the game, we selected 4 stand-alone games such as Tomb Raider: Shadow, Far Cry 5, Galaxy Crusher and the latest Eldon's Ring of Law, using 2K resolution and recording using BENCHMARK and Afterbuner.
Far Cry 5
Tomb Raider: Shadow
Galaxy Breaker
Eldon's Ring of Law
In these three game tests, the Core i7-12700K and RTX 3080 graphics cards performed fully on the ASUS TIF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 heavy gunner motherboard, and the 2K resolution game performance broke through to new highs, "Tomb Raider: Shadow" has reached 190 frames, and the official locked frame "Eldon's Ring of Law" is stable at about 60 frames. This motherboard with a high-end processor and graphics card creates an audiophile-grade gaming platform.
Copy machine test:
Finally we used the AIDA64 for a copy machine test to see the pressure resistance of the ASUS TIF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 Heavy Gunner Motherboard.
Copy machine testing
After half an hour of copy testing, under the dual copy of FPU and CPU, the temperature of Core i7-12700K is stable at about 77 ° C, as long as the radiator is in place, it can fully withstand the load of the high-end 12th generation Core.
04 Heavy Gunner is worth having
As a B660 motherboard, ASUS TIF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 Heavy Gunner Motherboard strength is obvious to all, this motherboard can make the Core i7-12700K high-end processor in the silent frequency performance to fully play. The 10+1 power phase module and TIF GAMING cooling armor can basically meet the load requirements of this high-end 12th generation Core.
This motherboard has excellent expansion capabilities, providing dual and 2 interfaces, I/O USB interface is also very rich, while the on-board WIFI6 wireless network card and 2.5G wired network, in the hardware configuration continues the heavy gunner series of high-specification materials.
ASUS TOF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 Heavy Gunner Motherboard also has an excellent BIOS design, not only fully functional, but also supports asusPerformance Enhancement 3.0 such black technology, no need to upgrade hardware, only through BIOS upgrade tuning may make the original platform performance further improved.
ASUS TOF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 heavy gunner motherboard is currently priced at 1199 yuan, which is more suitable for matching high-end 12th-generation non-K Core processors, if you do not need the function of over-octave, you can also test the same as we tested and Core i7-12700K This high-end with K model group platform, of course, with this high-end processor heat sink also needs to be in place, it is recommended that 240mm water cooling or the same level of air cooling.
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