The entire 12th Gen lineup of boards have been OTT and a bit overpriced imo. But the quality of the Mortar has often been compared to an M-ATX version of the Tomahawk in the past so it’s no slouch in terms of features & performance. Nice looking board and great review Mike. Great to see your the reviewer who firsts shows this awesome motherboard. 🤯🏆🎉🥳🥰
thanks Michael, and yes this is a really solid board and has the muscle but the chipset lets it down now that we know the price, this should be a z chipset at this price in my opinion, nearly £200 for a multiplier locked board is a bitter pill to swallow
hello, great video mike, already subscribed but i have a question, does this motherboard support a intel i7? if it does, all gens or just older ones? thank you and have a nice day
i got the b550m mortar wifi for my ryzens and man this mobo look really well built, the wifi is great, the only downside was the bluetooth range that is a little bit scuffed, other than that im really happy, i would bet on this one for sure
Thanks a lot @Mike'sunboxing You are the first on youtube to unbox & review this one i m a big fan from india of ur content. it should not be priced more than 175usd because in 200usd the Z690 mobos are already there & one more reason is that it is still DDR4 so if anyone will spent more money he will choose z690 with DDR5 compatibility. i would love to buy this one is my favourite B660M MORTAR WIFI for my 12600k or if 12600 launched in CES tomorrow 😍😍😍😍 Please Share this video & Channel thanks again 🙏🙏🙏🙏
I just finished removing snow from the street and it is 5:20 in the morning.. If i ever build an Intel computer, that coulf be a board I will consider. But my budget for new stuff is busted for a while...😞
Maybe a tad expensive at this price point considering the other mobos on the market (including some of MSIs own ones) but not a bad board to look at and it does what it says on the tin. Drop the price a bit and these would fly off the shelves. Thanks for the review, Mike and Kath :-)
if the 12th gen locked processors are cheap enough it will make the board more appealing, but if AMD get their stuff together and release a bunch or 3100, 3300x and 3600 at the MSRP it is game over for intel on the lower end
Interesting Mike to see these new motherboards. Looking forward to buy a cheap CPU on second hand market and mount it on this kind of motherboards. probable if available one from Asus that I prefer. I do not use a buzzer and never did.
Interesting review Mike. Afraid out of my league as only last year jumped from AM3+ motherboard, had used AthlonII and FX cpus on it, to B450 & R5 3600, so clearly not big user of PC! Looks a good board with big heatsinks although confusing intel still runs RAM at slow speeds. Presume hear from cpu then? Thanks for sharing Mike and Kath👍
High ranking overview, and the possible support of 13th gen Intel Raptor Lake would be a sweet deal. Hopefully the price wars between intel and AMD start the price drops soon.
I think between the Asus tuf b660m plus wifi and the MSI b660m wifi mortar, Mike your review made me chose the Mortar. Thanks, good review as always.Did I make a good choice.
It is stupid to call this budget when it costs basically as z690 mobo!! Its like calling BMW 7 budget car because it cost 5% less then Mercedes S class
yes i was expecting it to be a lot cheaper, as i said in the video it was recorded before the retail prices were disclosed. At nearly £200 i would be shopping over at AMD
hello again mike, i have another question, do you know if the GPU MSI Geforce RTX 3060 (12gb GDDR6) nvidia will work with this motherboard? thx and have a good day
yeah it is a sad thing to see happening and it doesn't seem to be slowing with boards getting more and more expensive for maybe a 5% speed increase, seems nuts really
i wish i had that option the board was only loaned for a short period for the unboxing, i think i mentioned this in the video. I cant test with processors that i had no access to, even MSI didn't have them for us to loan sadly
Does the non wifi of this board have Mystic Light support? My aio cooler is connected to jrainbow2 header but MSI center is not letting me change the rgb
Great review just bought it for $179 USD and paired it with a Intel i3 12100F $109 USD. Now trying to get my hands on a RTX 3050. Had a RTX 3050 in my cart for $379 and was debating, but apparently waited too long as it sold out and relisted for $399...:( At Some point i'll get a GPU I think...lol
Hey man, If you had this MSI Mortar and 12100f - did you tried to overclock this CPU with BCLK overclocking? I saw an article were was said that this Motherboard can overclock using BCLK
Hi Mike,i'd love to buy this board for my new 12th gen 12600 build,the only thing is holding me is the heatsink of this board might interfere with an AIO build and i am building in corsair 220T case....
Does this out-of-box support i5 12400F? Does any Bios update required? I am planning to buy this mother board. Since there is no Bios Flashback button available, I am a little bit concerned.
I noticed the DDR5 ram doesn't yet approach the latency of DDR4 ram which can get to around 10ns of latency but can the DDR5 be better in other ways (for gaming)? Or is it better to shoot for DDR4 ram with the lowest latencies possible?
I'm thinking of this build set up, partially via Alphasync, any thoughts? Following options selected via Alphasync, intel custom build options: intel i5 12600k MSI B660M DDR 4 wifi mobo (as reviewed above) Corsair 32gb vengeance rgb pro 3600mhz ram Corsair RM850 psu Coolermaster hyper 212 black cooler MSI Rtx Ventus 3080 That comes to £1,444 I want a 2tb M2 drive but their options were ludicrously overpriced so thinking of oing for mid range by WD: WD BLACK SN770 2TB SSD M.2 2280: 5150/4850 for £184 Got an SSD with Win 10 retail copy so can clone to new drive So total build cost - £1628 Any thoughts? Bad choices? better choices? Aim is a decent gaming platform for MS Flight Simulator and other fairly hig end games
@@mikesunboxing I'd love to butI'm not really in the kind of mental space at the mo to get to grips with building again, after being awol from it for at least 10 years :-) I'd rather let someone do it for me. This way i still get a lot of control over the quality of the components but none of the hassle.
Hey , these are my specs , will everything fit in the case and are compatible with the motherboard? GPU- MSI Radeon RX 6600 CPU - Intel i5 12400F Ram - Corsair Vengeance RGB pro 8x2 3200 C16 HDD - Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive SSD - Western Digital WD_BLACK SN750 SE 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Cooler - NZXT Kraken M22 Liquid CPU Cooler 120mm PSU - Corsair CXM 750 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply Cabinet - NZXT H510 Flow ATX Any help would be nice, thanks
I think it’s more like midrange,likes of Asus Prime ,MSI Pro,Gigabyte and Asrock HDV fit budget criteria better.. it’s now £175 for Wifi and £150 for non wifi.. the Asus Tuf B660M is also same price and looks much nicer but Asus have crappy audio chip Alc897. I wish those heatsinks weren’t silver,that’s what stops me from buying it they look hideous. The Mortar non wifi variant is all black and looks much better but I need wifi..
£199 for cruelly but truthfully a second rate chipset is way too much. Once you're crossing the ~£180 boundary you are almost certainly better served with a lower end Z690 board like the Asus Prime models than an expensive B660.
I agree these prices are pretty outrageous I was expecting a lot less. I would expect them to be £120 within a very short time with the market as it is now
@@mikesunboxing Personally £150 is my limit on a B660 before I would rather just spend the extra on a Z690. I was looking at picking up a 12400f and chucking it on a cheap board for a speedy gaming machine. That CPU is available for just £175. Stunning value, until you see the board selection and prices. Unfortunately options are limited but I would hope given another month there should be decent choices at and considerably below my target.
I just watched it again, after some rest, and the fact trhat better the vrm are, less heat is emmited from them. So having such big heat sink put some questions as how power hungry really are the 12gen Intel when really pushed ...
This is by no means a budget B660 board. MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4 is cheaper, offers a better chipset, features, decent thermals even for 12900K, just doesn't look as fancy.
@@jackw4150 It's got a better chipset. You can overclock the cpu on Z690, not on a B660, and the thermals are still good even on this cheap MSI board as what Gamers Nexus said. But I'm not sure about the audio output or so, maybe that can be better on the B660 Mortar. Also Z690-A Pro has got a PCIe 5.0 slot, while B660 Mortar only PCIe 4.0.
@@mikesunboxing I don't know to use a hub .. My case has 2 front fans, was looking to put 2 more at the top for simple intake.. Just want to know whether this board can take up 4 fans if directly connected to the board?
As i'm new to PC building,it is beyond my understanding ,why there's 20 versions of same MB,yet non of them has proper clamp for CPU.Further more,the naming of motherboards:There's PRO Series,one might think these are high tier.But nooo,we also have Bazooka,Mortar and Tomahawk! What the actual fuck?With this logic,the Nuke version is probably best..
@@mikesunboxing I went for this set: Intel Core i3-12100F 3.3GHz GoodRAM IRDM X 2x8GB DDR4 RAM 3200MHz Patriot P300 SSD 128GB M.2 NVMe PCI Express 3.0 (Only for the OS) I keep my old Drives. Asus Prime B660M-A WiFi D4 Arctic Freezer 7 X I red ALL benchmarks and set this one for the best VFM as it is now... What do you think. Total Cost 348,11 € with Delivery Service. I have a really... really tight budget and a kid to feed. My pc is 9 years old so this set is an improvement.
good question? now i know the price of this board and others in the range i'll admit i'm not heading out to buy an intel setup in the foreseeable future
Yeah I know the prices weren’t available until after the video was done. I did mention this and am very sorry that msi and intel have put such a new adoption tax on this chipset and platform
@@RandoBurner not sure if it ever did, but looking at present price points where I'm at, the b660m Mortar & TUF Gaming B660m are more or less the same at around $200. A cheaper & pretty good MSI b660m-a can be found at $150. Cheapest Z690 I can find is a MSI PRO z690-A at $210.
@@Don_Akane89 The m-a is really great. I just went with a zen3 upgrade for my b450 board. Will prob upgrade again in 2-3 years to a ddr5 and whatever board and cpu will be better value then.
@@Don_Akane89 The M-A doesnt have bios flashback though I think. The b660 gaming x from gigabyte though has it, and it doesn't look too bad(if you want to get a 13th gen cpu with it, non k or 13600k max prob)
UPDATED MSRP FROM MSI FOR THE UK as of 4th January 2022.
B660 MAG B660 TOMAHAWK WIFI £219.99
B660 MAG B660 TOMAHAWK WIFI DDR4 £209.99
B660 MAG B660M MORTAR WIFI £209.99
B660 MAG B660M MORTAR WIFI DDR4 £199.99
B660 MAG B660M MORTAR £199.99
B660 MAG B660M MORTAR DDR4 £189.99
B660 MAG B660M BAZOOKA £179.99
B660 MAG B660M BAZOOKA DDR4 £169.99
B660 PRO B660-A £169.99
B660 PRO B660-A DDR4 £159.99
B660 PRO B660M-A WIFI £159.99
B660 PRO B660M-A WIFI DDR4 £149.99
B660 PRO B660M-A £149.99
B660 PRO B660M-A DDR4 £139.99
B660 PRO B660M-G £119.99
B660 PRO B660M-G DDR4 £114.99
B660 PRO B660M-B £114.99
B660 PRO B660M-B DDR4 £109.99
B660 PRO B660M-E £104.99
B660 PRO B660M-E DDR4 £99.99
B660 PRO B660M-C EX DDR4 £149.99
Is there any worth while differences between all these motherboards.
The entire 12th Gen lineup of boards have been OTT and a bit overpriced imo. But the quality of the Mortar has often been compared to an M-ATX version of the Tomahawk in the past so it’s no slouch in terms of features & performance. Nice looking board and great review Mike. Great to see your the reviewer who firsts shows this awesome motherboard. 🤯🏆🎉🥳🥰
thanks Michael, and yes this is a really solid board and has the muscle but the chipset lets it down now that we know the price, this should be a z chipset at this price in my opinion, nearly £200 for a multiplier locked board is a bitter pill to swallow
Great looking motherboard, great video, thanks Mike. Can’t see this ever falling into my Orbit for building a system.
if the price is right i would definitely go for one, especially with the huge void in AMD stock
Thorough overview.
Thanks for watching :-)
Happy New Year Mike & Kath...Hope 2022 is good for you and your family :-)
Same to you and yours!
hello, great video mike, already subscribed but i have a question, does this motherboard support a intel i7? if it does, all gens or just older ones? thank you and have a nice day
12th and 13th gen will be okay on here and thanks for watching and commenting
i got the b550m mortar wifi for my ryzens and man this mobo look really well built, the wifi is great, the only downside was the bluetooth range that is a little bit scuffed, other than that im really happy, i would bet on this one for sure
the mortar range has never had a bad move, so far
still use a buzzer that i've popped on my B450 Carbon board, it is used so i can hear a clean boot whilst making coffee cheers!
i do miss the bios post beep might hook up a buzzer to my pc now
Thanks a lot @Mike'sunboxing
You are the first on youtube to unbox & review this one
i m a big fan from india of ur content.
it should not be priced more than 175usd because in 200usd the Z690 mobos are already there & one more reason is that it is still DDR4 so if anyone will spent more money he will choose z690 with DDR5 compatibility.
i would love to buy this one is my favourite B660M MORTAR WIFI for my 12600k or if 12600 launched in CES tomorrow 😍😍😍😍
Please Share this video & Channel
thanks again 🙏🙏🙏🙏
thanks so much for your kind words!
I hope this board comes out at $125 -$150 that would make it a great option
I just finished removing snow from the street and it is 5:20 in the morning.. If i ever build an Intel computer, that coulf be a board I will consider. But my budget for new stuff is busted for a while...😞
think we will be getting a little snow towards the end of the week, just what we need right now
Maybe a tad expensive at this price point considering the other mobos on the market (including some of MSIs own ones) but not a bad board to look at and it does what it says on the tin. Drop the price a bit and these would fly off the shelves. Thanks for the review, Mike and Kath :-)
if the 12th gen locked processors are cheap enough it will make the board more appealing, but if AMD get their stuff together and release a bunch or 3100, 3300x and 3600 at the MSRP it is game over for intel on the lower end
I didn't know at this point Mortar (MAG) were count as Budget friendly motherboard.. the price is really bad
I got this board for $160 on Amazon during a sale. Not bad for supporting ddr4 and it looks amazing.
@@MrDucatiV4 Excellent find, Michael ! At that price its a steal !
@@MrDucatiV4 Great price, my place / retails selling this for $250 inclusive tax
Interesting Mike to see these new motherboards. Looking forward to buy a cheap CPU on second hand market and mount it on this kind of motherboards. probable if available one from Asus that I prefer. I do not use a buzzer and never did.
looking forward to see how much there are going to charge for the new 12th gen locked processors, not long to go now before we find out
Not bad prices but am not entirely sold on these 12th gen CPU’s at the moment so am gonna wait and see what response amd comes up with
that is a sensible view
Interesting review Mike. Afraid out of my league as only last year jumped from AM3+ motherboard, had used AthlonII and FX cpus on it, to B450 & R5 3600, so clearly not big user of PC! Looks a good board with big heatsinks although confusing intel still runs RAM at slow speeds. Presume hear from cpu then? Thanks for sharing Mike and Kath👍
cheers Nick i actually really miss the FX range, good times
Nice looking mb 🙂 a bit pricey but sure that price will come down over time, cheers for review mike 👍
hope the processors are a sensible price, we really need something to fill the gap AMD have left
@@mikesunboxing agree shame too the ryzen 3s were good but vanished all to quickly 😢
High ranking overview, and the possible support of 13th gen Intel Raptor Lake would be a sweet deal. Hopefully the price wars between intel and AMD start the price drops soon.
agreed competition is good for us the end users
@@mikesunboxing Intel Core i5 12400F £179/ i5 12400 £199 @ ccl computers.AMD will have to drop the 5600x prices.
I’m not sure if they need to, the motherboards are a lot cheaper and all amd chips are unlocked, availability is going to be a key factor
@@mikesunboxing Amazon UK have recently dropped some B550, X570S motherboards by 10-12 % Maybe that is how AMD will keep the cpu prices the same.
I was tempted to pick up a cheap 11th gen cpu/motherboard combo but I think I will be kicking myself in a few months if I did this.
it will depend on the pricing, and availability
I think between the Asus tuf b660m plus wifi and the MSI b660m wifi mortar, Mike your review made me chose the Mortar. Thanks, good review as always.Did I make a good choice.
Good choice! i want one of my own (the review one had to go back to msi)
what do you think about Gigabyte b660m aorus pro ax?
Bought this a RTX3060 Gaming X and an I5 12500 to replace my ryzen 7 2700 and RX570 hehe. Can't wait!
hope you enjoy your upgrade
One of the only m-ATX boards with ALC1200 audio which is nice. I see that it now comes in ddr4 or 5 variants.
yes MSI have once again come out fighting
Will you be reviewing the
GIGABYTE B660 AORUS MASTER DDR4 too? Came out recently
possibly but no firm plans right now
It is stupid to call this budget when it costs basically as z690 mobo!! Its like calling BMW 7 budget car because it cost 5% less then Mercedes S class
yes i was expecting it to be a lot cheaper, as i said in the video it was recorded before the retail prices were disclosed. At nearly £200 i would be shopping over at AMD
@@mikesunboxing AMD have problem of overpriced zen2, 3 cpus
hello again mike, i have another question, do you know if the GPU MSI Geforce RTX 3060 (12gb GDDR6) nvidia will work with this motherboard? thx and have a good day
yes it will
Since when was 200ish "budget"? I remember when 200 for a board was reserved for high end ROG boards.
yeah it is a sad thing to see happening and it doesn't seem to be slowing with boards getting more and more expensive for maybe a 5% speed increase, seems nuts really
Think it would have been better to have waited and did a proper review rather than a speculative 'preview'.
i wish i had that option the board was only loaned for a short period for the unboxing, i think i mentioned this in the video. I cant test with processors that i had no access to, even MSI didn't have them for us to loan sadly
Would have got this board, but the only thing stopping me is the fact you can't overclock properly. I'll stick with the x570 for now
yeah the intel limitations are definitely hurting sales in my opinion
Whadaya think Mike, the stickers add, what, about 5-8 FPS?
at least :-)
I'm on the fence between this board B660M Mortar Wifi or PRO B660M-A WIFI. Any thoughts?
whichever is cheapest i guess not a lot between them
Does the non wifi of this board have Mystic Light support? My aio cooler is connected to jrainbow2 header but MSI center is not letting me change the rgb
not sure sorry not seen that board but if it has the physical ARGB or RGB header then it should be able to be controlled in msi center
Great review just bought it for $179 USD and paired it with a Intel i3 12100F $109 USD. Now trying to get my hands on a RTX 3050. Had a RTX 3050 in my cart for $379 and was debating, but apparently waited too long as it sold out and relisted for $399...:( At Some point i'll get a GPU I think...lol
hope you manage to get one soon
Hey man, If you had this MSI Mortar and 12100f - did you tried to overclock this CPU with BCLK overclocking? I saw an article were was said that this Motherboard can overclock using BCLK
Hi Mike,i'd love to buy this board for my new 12th gen 12600 build,the only thing is holding me is the heatsink of this board might interfere with an AIO build and i am building in corsair 220T case....
should be okay i think, i would be more concerned putting an AIO in the 220T i think i tried that and the front is about the only place it will fit
@@mikesunboxing Some barely got by it but used a low profile RAM which i am planning to do,thanks anyway bud
Does this out-of-box support i5 12400F? Does any Bios update required? I am planning to buy this mother board. Since there is no Bios Flashback button available, I am a little bit concerned.
yes it does
I noticed the DDR5 ram doesn't yet approach the latency of DDR4 ram which can get to around 10ns of latency but can the DDR5 be better in other ways (for gaming)? Or is it better to shoot for DDR4 ram with the lowest latencies possible?
ddr5 because of the increase in bandwidth the latency numbers are higher but actually comparable
It's shame that MSI does not offer B660 ITX form factor motherboard! Not interested in mATX at all.
yeah it will come soon i think
My son just picked up the non Wi-Fi version for 150£
No need for the gym today after fitting that board.
lol yes it is insanely heavy isn't it
@@mikesunboxing it’s easily heavier than my z590 msi board
I'm thinking of this build set up, partially via Alphasync, any thoughts?
Following options selected via Alphasync, intel custom build options:
intel i5 12600k
MSI B660M DDR 4 wifi mobo (as reviewed above)
Corsair 32gb vengeance rgb pro 3600mhz ram
Corsair RM850 psu
Coolermaster hyper 212 black cooler
MSI Rtx Ventus 3080
That comes to £1,444
I want a 2tb M2 drive but their options were ludicrously overpriced so thinking of oing for mid range by WD:
WD BLACK SN770 2TB SSD M.2 2280: 5150/4850 for £184
Got an SSD with Win 10 retail copy so can clone to new drive
So total build cost - £1628
Any thoughts? Bad choices? better choices?
Aim is a decent gaming platform for MS Flight Simulator and other fairly hig end games
not keen on building it yourself Burt?
@@mikesunboxing I'd love to butI'm not really in the kind of mental space at the mo to get to grips with building again, after being awol from it for at least 10 years :-) I'd rather let someone do it for me. This way i still get a lot of control over the quality of the components but none of the hassle.
Hey , these are my specs , will everything fit in the case and are compatible with the motherboard?
GPU- MSI Radeon RX 6600
CPU - Intel i5 12400F
Ram - Corsair Vengeance RGB pro 8x2 3200 C16
HDD - Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
SSD - Western Digital WD_BLACK SN750 SE 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME
Cooler - NZXT Kraken M22 Liquid CPU Cooler 120mm
PSU - Corsair CXM 750 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply
Cabinet - NZXT H510 Flow ATX
Any help would be nice, thanks
cant see any obvious problems there but i have not built in that case to know of any potential issues
how much room is there for air cooler like "arctic freezer 34 esports duo" can we use this cooler in this motherboard please reply
yes that is fine
What's the difference between the B660M and 660M-A or 660M-P?
just slightly different sub models
This can handle a 12600k very well, right? I don't care about OC but CPU itself is very good.
yes great board for it
Can MSI MAG B660M MORTAR WIFI only connect one 8pin CPU ? (As my PSU only has one 8pin EPS, and will use i5-12600K with non overclocking)
yes you could maybe even get away with 4 pin at a push
I think it’s more like midrange,likes of Asus Prime ,MSI Pro,Gigabyte and Asrock HDV fit budget criteria better..
it’s now £175 for Wifi and £150 for non wifi..
the Asus Tuf B660M is also same price and looks much nicer but Asus have crappy audio chip Alc897.
I wish those heatsinks weren’t silver,that’s what stops me from buying it they look hideous.
The Mortar non wifi variant is all black and looks much better but I need wifi..
£199 for cruelly but truthfully a second rate chipset is way too much. Once you're crossing the ~£180 boundary you are almost certainly better served with a lower end Z690 board like the Asus Prime models than an expensive B660.
I agree these prices are pretty outrageous I was expecting a lot less. I would expect them to be £120 within a very short time with the market as it is now
@@mikesunboxing Personally £150 is my limit on a B660 before I would rather just spend the extra on a Z690. I was looking at picking up a 12400f and chucking it on a cheap board for a speedy gaming machine. That CPU is available for just £175. Stunning value, until you see the board selection and prices. Unfortunately options are limited but I would hope given another month there should be decent choices at and considerably below my target.
I just watched it again, after some rest, and the fact trhat better the vrm are, less heat is emmited from them. So having such big heat sink put some questions as how power hungry really are the 12gen Intel when really pushed ...
yeah the 12th gen are thermally aggressive it seems across the board
@@mikesunboxing I think the only one that make sense is the 12400. But maybe things wil change later..
This is by no means a budget B660 board. MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4 is cheaper, offers a better chipset, features, decent thermals even for 12900K, just doesn't look as fancy.
yes these prices are a real disappointment to be honest, the prices were unknown to me before the video launch so sorry for that
@@mikesunboxing Sure, I understand. Actually TUF Gaming B660M-PLUS seems a better deal, but still the B550 equivalent is cheaper.
How sure are you that MSI Pro Z690-A is better than B660 mortar, I would to know, because I am in dilemma for these two mobo.
@@jackw4150 It's got a better chipset. You can overclock the cpu on Z690, not on a B660, and the thermals are still good even on this cheap MSI board as what Gamers Nexus said. But I'm not sure about the audio output or so, maybe that can be better on the B660 Mortar. Also Z690-A Pro has got a PCIe 5.0 slot, while B660 Mortar only PCIe 4.0.
How many system fans in total can be connected to this board??
as many as you want if you use a hub.
@@mikesunboxing I don't know to use a hub
.. My case has 2 front fans, was looking to put 2 more at the top for simple intake.. Just want to know whether this board can take up 4 fans if directly connected to the board?
@@shwetabhm No - you are going to need a splitter or a hub
Good choice for the i5 12400f?
yes it is
As i'm new to PC building,it is beyond my understanding ,why there's 20 versions of same MB,yet non of them has proper clamp for CPU.Further more,the naming of motherboards:There's PRO Series,one might think these are high tier.But nooo,we also have Bazooka,Mortar and Tomahawk! What the actual fuck?With this logic,the Nuke version is probably best..
Does B660-A DDR4 have same vrm as PRO B660M-A DDR4 ?
not sure sorry not had the ATX version
MSI Pro B660M-B DDR4 is it any good?
seems like a good choice
@@mikesunboxing
I went for this set:
Intel Core i3-12100F 3.3GHz
GoodRAM IRDM X 2x8GB DDR4 RAM 3200MHz
Patriot P300 SSD 128GB M.2 NVMe PCI Express 3.0 (Only for the OS) I keep my old Drives.
Asus Prime B660M-A WiFi D4
Arctic Freezer 7 X
I red ALL benchmarks and set this one for the best VFM as it is now...
What do you think.
Total Cost 348,11 € with Delivery Service.
I have a really... really tight budget and a kid to feed.
My pc is 9 years old so this set is an improvement.
@@mikesunboxing i wanted this one... MSI Pro B660M-B DDR4 but it was 45 Euro difference.
Can I install a noctua nhd15 to this and does it come with a back bracket?
it will do now, or if old stock you can request a bracket
@@mikesunboxing which do U think is better this or the asus strix b550 f gaming wifi II
Camo stickers are because mortar is a muzzle loaded weapon in military
good point!
Over the course of a few weeks, Alder Lake has gone from scary overpriced to the budget platform of choice.
if the motherboards follow suit then that might be the case for gamers, content creators not so much
can i use this even though i have 1 8pin cpu?
yes you can
for handle procecore i7 12700f. is any good ?
yes that would work well
Everything above 100$,£,€ you cant named budget
yes this is way too expensive for what it offers regardless of the vrm and cooling potential
why is this comment section so kind
good question? now i know the price of this board and others in the range i'll admit i'm not heading out to buy an intel setup in the foreseeable future
Has anyone tested MSI PRO B660-A with UBUNTU? thanks
not me sorry
Can this MB, OC the new i5 12400F Chip?
no sorry Z series boards only and needs to be a K series processor
Was not able to see this video before. because it was on privat.
now i'm able to see it. So Support comment 😎
thanks, there was an issue with the NDA timing so had to set it to private
overpriced, especially considering how dirt cheap the AM4 boards are being sold for in the UK
i agree
Comentarios en español por favor
i'll see what i can do
Best budget board???
Its 200 pounds!!!!
Yeah I know the prices weren’t available until after the video was done. I did mention this and am very sorry that msi and intel have put such a new adoption tax on this chipset and platform
@@mikesunboxing Could prices come down though?
@@RandoBurner not sure if it ever did, but looking at present price points where I'm at, the b660m Mortar & TUF Gaming B660m are more or less the same at around $200. A cheaper & pretty good MSI b660m-a can be found at $150.
Cheapest Z690 I can find is a MSI PRO z690-A at $210.
@@Don_Akane89 The m-a is really great. I just went with a zen3 upgrade for my b450 board. Will prob upgrade again in 2-3 years to a ddr5 and whatever board and cpu will be better value then.
@@Don_Akane89 The M-A doesnt have bios flashback though I think. The b660 gaming x from gigabyte though has it, and it doesn't look too bad(if you want to get a 13th gen cpu with it, non k or 13600k max prob)