And if you take a cheap Chinese motherboard B660M instead of ASUS, Gigabyte and others? Pros and cons

YouTube channel specialist Miyconst spoke in more detail about the Chinese B660M motherboard. In fact

It’s quite possible to use it now. Discuss

According to YouTube host Miyconst,The Maxsun (Soyo) B660M motherboard runs on the Chinese LGA 1700 platform. However, it still has additional holes: for example, to install an Intel cooler. To check the operation of the motherboard, the expert purchased an inexpensive Intel i3 processor.

At the same time, the B660M has some problems andrestrictions. First, it has only two memory slots and only three SATA ports. True, according to the expert, this will still be enough to assemble a gaming computer. For example, you can put two 32 GB RAM modules. In addition, this motherboard is equipped with two M.2 slots for installing an SSD. Both of these slots support PCIe 4.0 x4.

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The second minus of the B660M – these are problems with XMP.For some reason, when XMP is enabled (the computer build used G.Skill DDR4 3200 RAM), the memory timings are set incorrectly. You have to change these values ​​manually, and only then will everything work as it should.

However, Maxsun (Soyo) has an official website, so you can easily download BIOS or drivers from there.

In general, as the presenter emphasizes, it worksB660M motherboard is good. When he compared its performance with that of MSI Z690-A PRO, it turned out that the results of the motherboards are the same. Although, of course, you will not be able to overclock the processor with the B660M.

The expert also advises especially taking onAliExpress combination B660M with i3-12100 or i5-12400 processor. You can find more information about the Maxsun (Soyo) B660M motherboard in the images above.