The recently launched motherboard is basically around DDR5 memory modules, even in 2024, DDR4 performance is still not lagging behind, for home office or general games and other scenarios, DDR5 and DDR4 are not significantly different, but there is a significant gap in price, double the price does not bring the same performance improvement, if it is not the pursuit of high-end performance and pay more attention to cost performance, the relatively low price DDR4 is obviously more suitable. Tomahawk series is a product for mainstream users in the Colorful family series, the Colorful BATTLE-AX B760M-WHITE WIFI V20 motherboard adopts a 12+1+1 phase digital power supply design scheme, equipped with four DDR4 memory slots, and then share the performance test of this motherboard.
Colorful BATTLE-AX B760M-WHITE WIFI V20 motherboard adopts M-ATX (245mm×245mm) board type design, the white PCB board is designed with the silk screen of Tomahawk letters, and the power supply module and PCH chip are covered with silver-white aluminum alloy heat dissipation modules, which is basically the same as the design concept of Colorful own frost series motherboards.
MATX specifications are smaller than ATX specifications, there is almost no obvious difference in the compatibility between memory modules and solid-state drives, there are not many components on the back of the motherboard, mainly distributed in the position of the power supply module, the lower left corner (front) PCB is designed with orange and yellow lines, in fact, it is the isolation area of the sound card chip, and a separate area is specially designed to reduce the interference of the circuit to the sound card.
The power supply module is responsible for supplying power to the processor, and it is also a large heat generator, which must be matched with a sufficient amount of heat dissipation module, and the colorful BATTLE-AX B760M-WHITE WIFI V20 motherboard is equipped with a fairly thick aluminum alloy heat dissipation module, the surface has been brushed metal processing, and there is a tomahawk image groove design, in addition, the I/O interface cover on the back of the motherboard is not installed together when it leaves the factory.
In terms of power supply specifications, the colorful BATTLE-AX B760M-WHITE WIFI V20 motherboard uses 12+1+1-phase digital power supply design scheme, in which the processor core power supply is 12 phases, the core display power supply is 1 phase, the PWM main control chip is the RT3628AE of Liqi Technology, the core power supply DrMos chip is from Wanguo Semiconductor Technology, the package model is BR003P48, the maximum stable output current is 55A, the power supply specification can easily meet the power supply needs of i5 level processors, and the CPU auxiliary power supply socket adopts 8+4Pin design.
The motherboard is equipped with a total of four DDR4 memory slots, all of which are designed with a single-sided snap, a single memory module supports up to 32 GB capacity, a total memory capacity of up to 128 GB when fully plugged, supports dual-channel mode and XMP2.0 memory technology, and advertises that the memory running frequency can reach 4800MHz (OC).
Located on the upper side of the memory slot, it also provides a set of 5V ARGB lighting interfaces, three sets of 4Pin cooling fan power supply ports, even with a water cooling cooler, it is enough to install and use, no need to route the cable to the bottom of the motherboard, the right side of the memory module provides a USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A front expandable slot, and a USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C front expandable slot.
The colorful BATTLE-AX B760M-WHITE WIFI V20 motherboard is equipped with a PCIe5.0 x16 full-size graphics card slot, which is completely wrapped by metal reinforcements on the outside of the slot, which effectively improves the overall stability and service life, and a PCIe3.0 x4 slot below, which can be appropriately matched with M.2 riser cards and other accessories to increase the SSD slot and make full use of the motherboard's transmission bandwidth.
The motherboard provides three M.2 SSD slots, and adopts a convenient snap design, compatible with 2280, 2260 and 2242 form factors, all support PCIe4.0×4 transfer protocol, the first M.2 slot is directly connected to the processor, the bandwidth of the lower two slots is provided by PCH, all M.2 SSD slots are not equipped with independent heat dissipation modules, try to choose some SSDs with their own heat sinks or low heat.
The colorful BATTLE-AX B760M-WHITE WIFI V20 motherboard is equipped with a total of five cooling fan interfaces, two 12V ARGB and two 5V ARGB lighting interfaces, as well as ME write protection, ARGB switch and clear CMOS interface, the operation mode of short-circuit jumper, four Debug self-test lamp beads and marking different parts, which is convenient to quickly locate hardware faults when it cannot be started.
The main thing is that the Intel B760 chipset connection bus is DMI4.0*4, and it has been decided not to be equipped with too many data transmission interfaces in the transmission bandwidth, and the maximum allowed to be equipped with four SATA3.0 (6Gbps) data interfaces, colorful BATTLE-AX B760M-WHITE WIFI V20 motherboard is of course no exception, supporting the creation of RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 disk arrays.
In terms of the rear I/O ports of the motherboard, from top to bottom, there are DisplayPort1.2 and HDMI2.0 video output ports, which support up to 4K 60Hz screen display, 4 USB 2.0 ports, 1 USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port (10Gbps), 2 USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports (5Gbps), 2.5Gbps network interface, Wi-Fi 6 antenna interface and 3 audio ports.
The motherboard is equipped with an Intel AX101 wireless network card, which supports Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) and Bluetooth 5.2 connection technology, and the wireless connection rate can reach 600 Mbps.
360 LIQUID COOLING RADIATOR, CHASSIS, MEMORY MODULES AND DISCRETE GRAPHICS CARDS ARE ALL DESIGNED IN WHITE STYLE, THE OVERALL EFFECT IS VERY INTEGRATED WITH THE WHITE MOTHERBOARD, ESPECIALLY THE FAN RGB DYNAMIC LIGHTING EFFECT CAN BETTER ADAPT TO THE PURE WHITE WIND HOST, COLORFUL BATTLE-AX B760M-WHITE WIFI V20 motherboard is equipped with LGA 1700 processor socket, compatible with Intel Core 12th, 13th and 14th generation processors.
The processor matched with this test is Intel's 14th generation Core i7-14700K processor, with eight built-in performance cores and twelve energy efficiency cores, a three-level cache capacity of 30MB, and a turbo frequency rate of 5.6GHz.
The memory module that is matched this time is a C600 series memory module set from Dahua Storage, with a capacity of 32GB (16GB×2), support XMP2.0 overclocking technology, running at a frequency of 3600MHz, and a delay of CL18.
The discrete graphics card is a blue halberd Arc A750 Asian Games co-branded graphics card, the appearance is also a white appearance color, and there are special co-branded design elements, it is equipped with three cooling fans and five nickel-plated heat pipes, the core temperature and noise control are well controlled at full load, Intel's graphics card is currently narrowing the gap with the graphics card of the red and green factory, and the performance is comparable to RTX4060 and cost-effective.
In order to suppress the heating of the 14700K processor and not be affected by the heat, the Xingu Kunlun second-generation 360 liquid cooling radiator is used this time, which adopts a pure white appearance and an integrated cooling fan design, and is also equipped with a 2.1-inch LCD screen, which can display the operating status of the processor and video pictures, and the nominal heat dissipation power consumption is 320W, which can meet the heat dissipation needs of the flagship processor.
Boot needs to enter the BIOS for corresponding settings,This time are tested in the 1004 version of the BIOS,The new version of the BIOS is compatible with the 14th generation processor,The entire BIOS interface is still a colorful design style,In the main interface, you can view the status of the memory module、Processor、Hard disk、Cooling fan and other equipment status,Provide silent frequency mode、Performance mode and energy-saving mode for users to quickly switch。
Because the default fan curve of the motherboard is more aggressive, if you pursue silent operation, you can adjust the fan curve appropriately, the parameters provided by B760 are not as rich as the Z790 chipset, there is no way to adjust the number of cores and frequency and other parameters, the default frequency of the memory module is 2666MHz, you need to turn on the memory module XMP mode, and provide a quick XMP enabled project in the main interface, and more parameters can be modified in the overclocking OC interface.
The full-load power consumption of this 14700K processor is quite high, coupled with the high default voltage of the B760 motherboard, it is easy to have too high temperature and be forced to reduce the frequency of operation, add microcode switching in the motherboard BIOS, support 104 microcode mode, the main role is to appropriately reduce the processor core voltage, and solve the problem that the default core voltage of the processor is high, resulting in a high full-load temperature.
When the 104 microcode mode is enabled, the core voltage parameters still need to be appropriately adjusted to play an effect, and the adjustment process is relatively simple, select the Adaptive mode in the CPU core voltage, set the offset prefix to "-", and then manually enter the offset voltage value, depending on the physique of the processor, if the physique is very good, it can be set to 0.15, and the physique can also be set to 0.1.
The core voltage in the default microcode mode is quite high, for example, the full-load voltage of this i7-14700K processor reaches 1.35V, resulting in a full-load power consumption soaring to 332W, and the core temperature also reaches 100°C, directly touching the temperature wall and running at a reduced frequency, when the 104 microcode is turned on, the full-load core voltage drops to 1.29V, and the power consumption is also reduced to 307W, and the core temperature also drops and there is no frequency reduction.
After the voltage parameters are set, it is necessary to carry out a proper oven stress test to verify whether the hardware system can continue to operate stably, through a period of try, the processor can run at a more stable frequency after stepping down 0.120v, especially when the full-load power consumption is reduced to 300W, the water-cooled radiator can withstand the full-load output of 14700K, and the performance test is carried out in 104 microcode mode.
104 microcode stability baking machine stress test, it is recommended to run CineBench R23 for 30 minutes, if the error does not report for a long time means stable, the next benchmark performance test link, first run the CineBench series rendering software, of which the R15 software multi-core score is 5384 points, the R20 software multi-core score is 13371 points, and the R23 software multi-core score is 35164 points.
In the benchmark test of the CineBench 2024 version, the score is 1905 points, the power consumption is about 300W when running the score, and the frequency of the performance core is stable at 5.5GHz, this 14700K processor is basically the same performance as on the colorful BATTLE-AX B760M-WHITE WIFI V20 motherboard, compared with the performance on the Z790 motherboard, the processor can fully exert the performance it should have.
The V-Ray benchmark software provides three test items for rendering tests on GPU and CPU, but two GPU test items require NVIDIA graphics cards, so this time only the processor is tested for computing rendering, and this Intel 14th Gen Core i7-14700K processor scored 23277 points.
The CPU Profile project in the 3DMark benchmark software mainly tests the performance of the processor under different thread counts, and the Intel Core i7-14700K processor has a maximum thread score of 14257 points, a 16-thread score of 11030 points, a 2-thread score of 2325 points, and a single-thread score of 1154 points.
Two DDR4 memory modules running at 3600MHz are installed on the motherboard, the timing is CL18-22-22-42, the voltage is 1.35V, in Gear1 mode, using the memory and cache test items in AIDA64 software, the measured memory module reads and writes are 54401MB/s and 50967MB/s respectively, the copy is 52211MB/s, and the latency is 69.2ns.
The total score of the Time Spy project in the 3DMark benchmark software is 13457 points, the graphics score of the graphics card is 12648 points, and the CPU score is 21122 points RTX4060.
Next, the actual performance test of the game, first run the "Forza Horizon 5" game, because this A750 graphics card is only equipped with 8GB video memory, if it is set to the highest preset image quality, the video memory will be occupied too high, so this time the game screen will be set to 2K resolution preset ultra-high image quality, turn on the TAA anti-aliasing effect and turn off the XeSS function, the measured average game frame rate reaches 79FPS.
The 2.12 version of the large-scale game "Cyberpunk 2077", also due to the limited video memory, this test sets the game screen to 2K resolution preset high quality, and turns off XeSS and ray tracing picture effects, the measured average frame rate is 60FPS, the minimum frame rate is 53FPS, and the smoothness is no problem, if the XeSS super sampling quality file is enabled, the game frame rate will be increased to 72FPS.
Although Shadow of the Tomb Raider is an old game, it supports new technologies such as XeSS, DLSS and ray tracing, sets the screen resolution to 2560×1440, and directly sets the game image quality to the highest preset, turns off ray tracing by default, and uses the game's built-in benchmark test to achieve an average frame rate of 83FPS, which can be played smoothly without turning on the XeSS super sampling function.
PUBG, a massively multiplayer online chicken game, adopts a preset ultra-high image quality setting, the game scene is an Erangel map, and the average frame rate of the game in the wild scene is about 87FPS, if you use a high refresh rate screen, you can set the game to the three extreme picture effects of texture, anti-aliasing and visual distance, and the game frame rate will be increased to a super high 140FPS.
The large-scale martial arts version of the multiplayer game "Naraka: Bladepoint", in DX12 mode and the game is set to the preset very high image quality, the average frame rate is 63FPS, which has exceeded the smooth baseline of 60 frames, even during the multiplayer melee The picture will not freeze, if set to the preset high image quality, the game frame rate will be increased to 82FPS.
The latest new large-scale game "Horizon: Forbidden West", its graphics are really worthy of praise, high requirements for hardware rendering performance, especially this kind of super large open map game, in the case of preset medium image quality and turn off XeSS, the frame rate can reach 60FPS, if the preset high image quality is turned on, the video memory will be occupied too high, and the average frame rate of the game will drop to 50FPS.
That's it for the game performance test,Finally, the motherboard is subjected to a baking stress test,The full-load power consumption reaches 304W when the i7-14700K processor is baked alone,The motherboard can continue to supply stable power to the processor,There is no overheating and frequency reduction phenomenon of power supply,The room temperature during the test is about 28°C,The core temperature is maintained at about 95°C,This Xingu Kunlun second-generation 360 water-cooled radiator can completely suppress the heat of the processor,The whole process does not touch the temperature wall and reduce the frequency。
The power supply module of the motherboard may not be equipped with a temperature sensor, and the corresponding value is not queried in the detection software, so the temperature of the heat dissipation module can only be measured with an infrared thermometer, and the surface temperature of the heat dissipation module on the left and upper sides of the measured processor is 46.7 °C and 53.4 °C respectively when the processor is fully loaded, mainly because the water block of the water cooler has a built-in fan to assist in heat dissipation, which reduces the temperature of the power supply module.
General Comments:
The colorful BATTLE-AX B760M-WHITE WIFI V20 motherboard adopts a white exterior design, pure white PCB board and silver-white thermal armor blessing, making it difficult for players who want to assemble a white sea view room host to refuse, thanks to 12+1+The 1-phase digital power supply design solution can fully meet the full load power supply needs of the i7-14700K processor, which is more than enough to cope with the processor below this level, and the aluminum alloy heat dissipation module provides excellent heat dissipation performance to ensure long-term stable power supply, and the motherboard supports 104 microcode function to further control the core voltage of the processor, so that the processor can achieve a relative balance between full load power consumption and heat generation.
The motherboard has quite good expandability, equipped with four DDR4 memory slots, supports dual-channel and XMP2.0 technology, runs at a frequency of 4800MHz (OC), and the maximum memory capacity can reach 128GB, DDR4 has obvious advantages, that is, the amount is large and full, effectively reducing the installation cost, the motherboard also has three PCIe4.0 specifications M.2 SSD interface and four SATA3.0 interfaces, built-in WiFi 6 wireless network card and 2.5G wired network card, I believe that it can meet the expansion needs of most users, due to the cost limitation and did not add the heat dissipation module, try to choose some low heat or high-performance solid state drive with heat sink design, nevertheless, as a relatively low price B760 MATX motherboard, in order to ensure its stable and solid power supply capacity, so that the core performance can be fully exerted on the premise, other configuration details are well chosen, will not be negatively affected by daily use at all, providing players with a good choice of appearance and cost performance.