Gigabyte B660 GAMING X AX DDR4 LGA1700 Motherboard $249 + Delivery ($0 MEL/BNE/SYD C&C) @ Scorptec

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LShafty199 on 13/01/2023 - 11:49 scorptec.com.au (522 clicks)
Last edited 13/01/2023 - 16:09 by 1 other user

First post so sorry if I’m missing anything

first time I’ve seen it drop this low so picked one up immediately posting for anyone looking to upgrade to 12th/13th gen

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  myovoz on 13/01/2023 - 12:18

  Hi, It is good, nice work.

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  hhbb555 on 13/01/2023 - 12:21

  is this any good, compared to say MSI B660M Mortar?
  I noticed the MSI doesn't have a comparable function like QFlash Plus, but I noticed the general sentiment toward MSI seems to be better than Gigabyte

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    garage sale on 13/01/2023 - 13:33

    I have this motherboard, works OK for me, bonus is the AX wireless, saves a slot and antenna has fly leads, running with I5 12500.

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  Axelstrife on 13/01/2023 - 12:27

  If it's anything like the Gigabyte Z690m Aorus Elite AX i had then i'd advise against it, completely unstable ram at anything but stock speeds, running XMP would mean it wouldn't boot or games constantly crash.

  googling the motherboard seems to show the same issues i had with the Z690m See here

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    Weshouldgetsushi on 13/01/2023 - 12:55

    My Aorus 660M Pro uses 3600 RAM with no problems. So does my Aorus 560M pro. They're both nicely featured boards
    I just set XMP in BIOS.
    It is cheap Silicon Power RAM in both cases.
    Same as Reddit linked here - I used A2B2 slots.

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      Axelstrife on 13/01/2023 - 13:03

      Guess you got lucky, i saw the reddit post's about the ram issues but chose to risk it and did not get lucky.
      I was reusing G-Skill 3600 CL14 Bdie kit i already had.

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        Weshouldgetsushi on 13/01/2023 - 14:37

        Also some G Skill Aegis 3200 CL16 RAM worked fine for me when I first ran up my 560M.
        Maybe cheaper stuff is better?

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    sdx91 on 14/01/2023 - 11:57

    i got the same z690m elite ax using xmp and no issues with latest bios, i believe that issue was only with the standard bios the board came with

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      Axelstrife on 14/01/2023 - 12:53

      I updated to whatever the latest bios was when Intel 13th gen was released to be able to use a 13th gen cpu.

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  cski on 13/01/2023 - 14:36

  +2

  these companies really like to make things confusing

  B450 AMD
  B460 Intel
  B550 AMD
  B560 Intel
  B650 AMD
  B660 Intel

  how did it come to be so ?

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    ozdesi on 18/01/2023 - 00:40

    +1

    first digit is generation of the board

    middle digit 5 is AMD
    middle digit 6 is Intel

    last digit is always zero

    what was so confusing?

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      cski on 18/01/2023 - 08:39

      obviously i know 5-6 is the variance, but historically there was a little more effort by the manufactures to differentiate with

      i Z X

      why 5 and 6 which in many fonts are difficult to decipher on printed boards

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        ozdesi on 19/01/2023 - 18:32

        -2

        you are just rambling about it and creating confusion yourself

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          cski on 20/01/2023 - 09:37

          @ozdesi: no i am not manufacturing anything

          fact
          two incompatible companies chose very similar naming schemes and that is not usual

          I made an observation that
          Intel was previous Z series
          AMD B and X series

          The mixture of B 5 & 6 seems unnecessary to the market

          But you choose to insult someone about it?