Review: MSI MPG B560i Gaming Edge WiFi

by Tarinder Sandhu on 14 July 2021, 14:01

Tags: MSI, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)

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Conclusion

the board is underpowered compared to its immediate competition.

Intel's B560 chipset makes a lot of sense if you don't plan to overclock. MSI sees merit in putting together a mini-ITX board capable of handling the latest processors imbued with PCIe 4.0 technology.

Priced at around £150, the B560i Gaming Edge WiFi produces reasonable results in our battery of tests, albeit full-on all-core turbo is lacking.

Yet more importantly, the board is underpowered compared to its immediate competition. A lack of 20Gbps USB, meagre port rationing, and missing the latest-generation audio codec means it is not as good as, say, the Asus ROG Strix B560-I Gaming.

MSI needs to drop the price to £130 for it to be a decent buy. Anything more encroaches on boards with better feature sets.

The Good
  
The Bad
Tidy design
WiFi 6E and 2.5GbE
  
Last-gen audio
No 20Gbps USB
All-core performance not great

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The reviewed motherboard is available from Scan Computers.

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Posted by thewelshbrummie - Fri 16 Jul 2021 04:28
We find it unnecessary to have four SATA ports on a mini-ITX board; two ought to be sacrificed for a third M.2.

That's a strange complaint and I'm not sure I agree with it as a valid critisism. Are there any itx boards with 3x m.2 slots? Or even any mATX boards? I've only found one non-full size ATX board with 3x m.2 slots & that's the ASRock X399M Taichi, an mATX HEDT threadripper board which is targeting a completely different market to this board - and one that's legacy at this point being 1st & 2nd gen Threadripper only.

I doubt I'd buy this as the other issues mentioned are valid, especially for this class of board in the £1-200 range. But suggesting a 3rd m.2 slot when no OEM is doing that at this price (and the only one to have done so is on a legacy HEDT board) is a bit of a stretch as a complaint.