Gigabyte B660 Aorus Master DDR4: A board both efficient and flashy

Test setup

Alder Lake CPUs’ favorable price/performance ratio was initially spoiled by expensive motherboards. However, after the arrival of models with Intel B660 chipsets, the unfavorable situation began to turn around and in some cases quite dramatically. Asus TUF Gaming B660 Plus WiFi D4 with support for DDR4 memory, which is far cheaper than DDR5, can handle even the fastest CPUs. And the vast majority of users won’t even feel any bottlenecks.

Test setup

Intel Core i5-12900K and Intel Core i5-12400 CPUs
Alphacool Eisbaer Aurora 360 liquid cooler
Patriot Blackout memory (4× 8 GB, 3600 MHz/CL18)
MSI RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio graphics card
Patriot Viper VP4100 (1 TB) and Patriot Viper VPN100 (2 TB) SSDs
BeQuiet! Dark Power Pro 12 1200 W PSU

Note: Graphics drivers used at the time of testing: Nvidia GeForce 466.77 and OS Windows 10 build 19043


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