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
| 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
