Test setup
The low price of a motherboard brings with it a few unconventional limitations. Ones that are not often found in competing models for similar money. Some of these are of the safety variety to avoid unnecessary damage to critical components. For a customer buying a standard, reasonably set-up build in this price class, they won’t be a bother, and saving money with the B660 Steel Legend can be beneficial.
Test setup
Testovacia konfigurácia | |
Chladič CPU | Noctua NH-U14S@12 V |
Teplovodivá pasta | Noctua NT-H2 |
Základná doska * | MSI MAG Z690 Tomahawk WiFi DDR4 (BIOS 7D32v11) |
Pamäte (RAM) | Patriot Blackout, 4× 8 GB, 3600 MHz/CL18 |
Grafická karta | MSI RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio, Resizable BAR off |
SSD | 2× Patriot Viper VPN100 (512 GB + 2 TB) |
Napájací zdroj | BeQuiet! Dark Power Pro 12 (1200 W) |
Note: Graphics drivers used at the time of testing: Nvidia GeForce 466.77 and OS Windows 10 build 19043
- Contents
- ASRock B660 Steel Legend in detail
- What it looks like in the BIOS
- Methodology: Performance tests
- Methodology: How we measure power draw
- Methodology: Temperature and frequency measurements
- Test setup
- 3DMark
- Borderlands 3
- F1 2020
- Metro Exodus
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Total War Saga: Troy
- PCMark and Geekbench
- Web performance
- 3D rendering: Cinebench, Blender, ...
- Video 1/2: Adobe Premiere Pro
- Video 2/2: DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Graphics effects: Adobe After Effects
- Video encoding
- Audio encoding
- Photos: Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Photo, ...
- (De)compression
- (De)cryption
- Numerical computing
- Simulations
- Memory and cache tests
- M.2 (SSD) slots speed
- USB ports speed
- Ethernet speed
- Power draw curve (EPS + ATX connector) w/o power limits
- Power draw curve (EPS + ATX connector) with Intel’s power limits
- Total power draw (EPS + ATX connector)
- Achieved CPU clock speed
- CPU temperatures
- VRM temperatures – thermovision of Vcore and SOC
- SSD temperatures
- Chipset temperatures (south bridge)
- Conclusion