SAPPHIRE RECENTLY RELEASED THE NITRO+ B650I WIFI MOTHERBOARD, WHICH MAY BE A LITTLE UNFAMILIAR TO SOME USERS, BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN 3 YEARS SINCE SAPPHIRE'S PREVIOUS GENERATION B550I MOTHERBOARD WAS RELEASED. Launched primarily for the AM5 platform, this motherboard finally allows gamers and fans to continue building Sapphire's new triple-A platform. The Sapphire NITRO+B650I WIFI motherboard adopts the ITX mini board design this time, which also has a new choice for users who want to build an ITX host.
1 Sapphire NITRO+B650I WIFI Motherboard Introduction
As an ITX motherboard, the Sapphire NITRO+B650I WIFI motherboard has a standard 170mm x 170mm form factor that fits into a variety of small chassis. This motherboard has a plain look but solid materials, with an 8-layer PCB design, the same design as some high-end X670 boards, and at first glance, it is well-made and the parts are neatly laid out, which is pleasing to the eye.
Let's take a look at the power supply first, Sapphire NITRO+B650I WIFI motherboard adopts 8-phase power supply design this time, PEM controller is XDPE192C3B from Infineon, 8-phase power supply is designed by DrMos, the model is also a TDA21570 from Infineon, a single output can output 70A, theoretically this motherboard is completely enough for the current Ryzen 7000 motherboard.
The entire power supply system of the Sapphire NITRO+ B650I WIFI motherboard is covered by a huge metal heatsink with metal thermal conduction at the bottom.
The front of the heatsink is printed with the sapphire brand logo, and the neat and delicate print is engraved. Next to it is the CPU FAN pin and a 4+4pin CPU power supply interface, a 4+4pin interface can generally output about 350W, even in the face of the flagship Ryzen 7000 processor there is no pressure.
In terms of memory, the Sapphire NITRO+ B650I WIFI motherboard has prepared two DDR5 memory slots, which support 6000 OC and support the EXPO standard. AMD's crossover mechanism has a limit on DDR5 memory, so it is generally not recommended to use more than 6400 memory, and 6000 like the Sapphire NITRO+B650I WIFI motherboard is just right.
In terms of expansion, this motherboard provides a PCIe 4.0x16 graphics card slot, and the metal alloy slot design is more rugged and durable, and it is not easy to be damaged by plugging and removing the graphics card.
The Sapphire NITRO+ B650I WIFI motherboard has the same M.2 slot layout as mainstream ITX motherboards, one on the front and one on the back, and the front is located under the thermal armor, and all support the PCIe 4.0 protocol.
The Sapphire NITRO+ B650I WIFI motherboard has a total of 4 SATA ports, which are located around the jumper header on the left, and you can see the USB 3.2 Gen1 header next to it, the switch jumper, and a 5V ARGB light pin.
There is also a 12V RGB light pin on the top of the motherboard, which can be synchronized by installing the Blaupunkt TRIXX-M software in the system. In addition to the lighting effect, Sapphire also prepares a fault self-test light on the top of the motherboard power supply to quickly judge the motherboard problems and troubleshoot the fault.
In the I/O area, the Sapphire NITRO+ B650I WIFI motherboard offers a DP port, an HDMI port, 2 black USB 2.0 ports, 2 red USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A ports, a USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C port with a rate of up to 20Gbps, a white Clear CMOS button for resetting the BIOS, and two blue USB 3.2 Gen1 ports Type-A port, a Gigabit Ethernet port, a WIFI 6 wireless card antenna port and 3 audio ports. In terms of expansion interfaces, it is enough for most players.
Finally, in terms of accessories, the sapphire NITRO+ B650I WIFI motherboard is equipped with a standard SATA cable and I/O bezel, and additionally provides the signal enhancement antenna required by the WIFI 6 wireless network card.
2 蓝宝石NITRO+B650I WIFI主板BIOS
Let's take a look at the BIOS of the Sapphire NITRO+B650I WIFI motherboard, the current Sapphire BIOS has been upgraded to a graphical UEFI, supporting Chinese and advanced menu settings. The main menu interface integrates the important information interface, which makes it easy to adjust the settings of EXPO, SAM and PBO.
The advanced interface of the Sapphire NITRO+ B650I WIFI motherboard allows you to adjust the voltage, memory and other settings, we used the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, this processor is clock locked, so there is no frequency option in the menu.
The advanced memory menu mainly adjusts the frequency, timing, and parameter settings, which can have a significant impact on memory performance for AMD platforms that cannot support high-frequency DDR5 memory, while the Sapphire NITRO+ B650I WIFI motherboard can meet the needs of users to deeply optimize memory.
Memory decentralization is AMD's official overclocking PBO setting, which can further increase the performance of the processor, and you can set the parameters automatically or in advanced mode, but for processors like Ryzen 7 7800X3D, the improvement is less, and the general settings can be turned on automatically.
The advanced interface is for the general I/O parameter setting, which is generally used to view information, and is rarely used.
3 Combat Tests
Let's start the combat test, first take a look at the test platform.
This evaluation is paired with the Sapphire Home RX 7900 GRE 16G D6 Polar Edition, a graphics card with a very high value for testing, this graphics card has 5376 stream processors, 16GB GDDR6 video memory, video memory bit width of 256 bit, bandwidth of 576 GB/s, frequency up to 2333MHz, compared with the public version of 2245MHz There is a slight improvement, and the performance will be stronger.
Let's test the memory first, the sapphire NITRO+B650I WIFI motherboard supports EXPO and XMP configurations, we directly turn on EXPO this time to increase the memory frequency to 6000MT/s, and compare the performance difference at the default 4800MT/s, and use AIDA 64 for testing.
The 6000MT/s frequency Sapphire NITRO+ B650I WIFI motherboard can be easily implemented, compared with 4800MT/s, the read, write, copy and latency performance have been greatly improved, so it is recommended that the user turn on the settings after installation of both EXPO and XMP configurations.
Let's test the performance of the processor again, this time using CINEBENCH R23 and the 3D MARK CPU Profile
CINEBENCH R23 MAINLY TESTS THE SINGLE-THREADED AND MULTI-THREADED BENCHMARK PERFORMANCE OF THE PROCESSOR, AND IN THE CINEBENCH R23 TEST, THE AMD RYZEN 7 7800X3D SCORED 17456PTS FOR MULTI-THREADING AND 1605PTS FOR SINGLE-THREADING, WHICH IS A GOOD BENCHMARK PERFORMANCE.
In the CPU Profile test, the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D scored 7796 for the maximum thread and 939 for 1 thread, although the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D mainly uses large caches to play games, but its benchmark performance has also reached the performance of a mid-to-high-end 8-core 16-thread processor.
Of course, we also tested the game performance of this triple-A platform to see what kind of gaming experience AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D can have with Sapphire RX 7900 GRE 16G D6 Polar Edition graphics card, we chose 3 triple-A masterpieces "Forza Horizon 5", "Tomb Raider: Shadows" and "Cyberpunk: 2077", with a resolution of 1080p and the highest image quality preset.
It can be seen that this triple-A platform has a good frame rate performance in these three triple-A games, with Forza Horizon 5 reaching 169 frames, Shadow of the Tomb Raider reaching 251 frames, and Cyberpunk: 2077 reaching 181.76 frames.
WE ALSO TESTED THE STABILITY OF THE SAPPHIRE NITRO+ B650I WIFI MOTHERBOARD, USING AIDA64 FOR THE MOST STRESSFUL FPU SINGLE COPY OF THE AMD RYZEN 7 7800X3D.
Thanks to the powerful cooling system and power supply of the Sapphire NITRO+ B650I WIFI motherboard, even when we use ordinary 5 heat pipe air cooling, the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D can be stably maintained at 76°C after half an hour of burning, and there is no adverse reaction in the middle, and the pressure resistance is very good.
Finally, let's introduce the Blaupunkt TRIXX-M software, which has also been mentioned earlier and can be used for lighting control, but in fact this is only one aspect, the Blaupunkt TRIXX-M software can also achieve deeper adjustment, such as fans, voltage, memory and other parameters can be set through this software.
There are several lighting modes of the TRIXX-M software, and it also supports customization to help you create a personalized host.
The detection interface can monitor temperature and voltage, as well as the fan.
The fan adjustment interface allows for in-depth control of the speed details.
The final parameter interface is like a BIOS, adjusting the voltage, memory frequency, memory timing, and memory parameters, which can be said to be an overclocking plug-in specially prepared by Sapphire for its own users.
4 Write at the end
In general, as an ITX motherboard Sapphire NITRO+B650I WIFI motherboard, the performance is excellent in all aspects, whether it is a powerful power supply system, or a rich expansion ability and software tuning in the ITX motherboard, it reflects Sapphire's solid material skills and understanding of the needs of players, and it is not in vain that everyone has waited for 3 years, Sapphire has really worked hard this time.
Moreover, the Sapphire NITRO+B650I WIFI motherboard also has a relatively complete graphical UEFI interface in the BIOS, so that novice gamers can clearly know the location of each option, and also provides a wealth of adjustment options for senior players, whether it is voltage settings or memory overclocking options.
At present, the sapphire NITRO+B650I WIFI motherboard has been listed,Jingdong price1689element,It should be noted that at present, this motherboard can only support Ryzen 7000 processor,Wait for the follow-up BIOS update to be compatible with AMD's new generation of processors,For users who want to build a 3A platform and install a high-end ITX platform,Sapphire NITRO+B650I WIFI motherboard is indeed a good choice,Players who have needs can consider it。
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