Today, we’ll be taking a look at the ASRock B860 Steel Legend Wi-Fi motherboard. It utilizes Intel’s latest B860 chipset and it’s suitable to all the latest Core Ultra (Series 2) processors on the LGA1851 socket.
It’s targeted at the mainstream market for users who’s after an affordable next-gen motherboard for light gaming and content creation.
It features a 14+1+1 Power Phase Design with 80A Dr.MOS for VCore+GT+SA, giving you enhanced stability and durability. It’s cooled by several large Aluminium heatsinks for efficient heat dissipation.
It comes with 4 x DDR5 DIMM slots supporting Dual Channel memory with speeds of up to DDR5-8666+ (OC). Expansion slots include 1 PCIe 4.0 x16 and 1 x PCIe 5.0 x16 with a Lite Release Design featuring a spring-loaded latch for easy installation and removal of graphics cards.
For storage, you a total of 4 SATA ports and 1 x Blazing M.2 slot (PCIe Gen5x4) with their Toolless Multi-Layer M.2 Heatsink design and includes a bottom heatsink for effective heat dissipation. You also get 2 x Hyper M.2 (PCIe Gen4x4) and 1 x M.2 (PCIe Gen4x2) slots.
The motherboard has plenty of connectivity with total of 18 x USB ports, which includes 1 x USB 3.2 Gen2x2 Type-C (Front), 2 x USB 3.2 Gen2 (Rear), 8 x USB 3.2 Gen1 (4 Rear, 4 Front), 7 x USB 2.0 (3 Rear, 4 Front).
You also get 1 x Thunderbolt™ 4 Type-C port, a Realtek 2.5G LAN, Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth. Other features include the 7.1 HD Nahimic Audio, BIOS Flashback Button, and ASRock’s Polychrome RGB.
What’s more, the ASRock B860 Steel Legend Wi-Fi motherboard supports SignalRGB, which unifies your all RGB devices with advanced lighting controls, and offers greater customization and flexibility for game-reactive effects, macro automation, and system monitoring.
Intel B860 Chipset
Intel® Core™ Ultra desktop processors (Series 2) are the foundation of the AI PC, and Intel® 800 Series Chipsets are designed to enable their intelligent performance and next-gen connectivity. The Intel® 800 Series has something for every user. From the latest technology features that users need to connect and work to the enthusiast-level options for those who demand a powerful rig, the Intel® 800 chipset
maximizes the peripheral and connectivity options.
I would like to thank ASRock for providing the review sample. This is a snippet from what ASRock has to say about themselves on their website:
ASRock Inc. is established in 2002, specialized in the field of motherboards. ASRock strives to build up its own brand. With the 3C design concept, “Creativity, Consideration, Cost-effectiveness”, the company explores the limit of motherboards manufacturing while paying attention on the eco issue at the same time, developing products with the consideration of eco-friendly concept.
ASRock has been growing fast and become world third largest motherboard brand with headquarter in Taipei, Taiwan and branches in Europe and the USA. The young and vibrant company targets from mainstream to enthusiast MB segments for different kinds of users, owning reputation around the world market with its reliability and proficiency.
We’ll be testing the ASRock B860 Steel Legend WiFi Motherboard with Intel’s latest Core Ultra 9 285K processor, along with 32GB of Patriot Viper Gaming Xtreme 5 DDR5-7600 ram, Crucial T700 PCIE Gen5 SSD, and a GeForce RTX 4080 Super graphics card.
Let’s jump straight in and start by taking a look at the specifications and features in our next page. You can buy the ASRock B860 Steel Legend WiFi motherboard for around USD $199 from Amazon – https://amzn.to/4hsY2Uu
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