ASRock B560M Steel Legend

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ASRock B560M Steel Legend is a product aimed at a group of users who have a limited budget but still want a motherboard with a relative aesthetic, performance, and a full range of features available. Ready for the upcoming 11th Gen Intel Core processors.

ASRock B560M Steel Legend is a Micro-ATX sized motherboard, so it is fully compatible with all types of PC cases on the market, from entry-level to high-end. Targeting the general market, the B560M Steel Legend has a simple design but still has a sufficient aesthetic.

This motherboard is based on a 6-layer PCB board with a composition of high-density glass fibers, an upgrade from the previous 4-layer with military camo-themed prints team on two-tone gray-white. At the same time, the heatsink assembly on this motherboard with contrasting light tones also improves the aesthetics of this motherboard.

ASRock B560M Steel Legend is built on the latest Intel B560 chipset platform, so it is ready to support the installation of the upcoming 11th generation Intel Core processors. The 11th generation Core processor series is still based on the LGA 1200 socket, so the B560M Steel Legend will continue to support the current 10th generation Intel Core processor series.

The VRM cluster is equipped with a simple slotted monolithic aluminum heatsink and is adorned with the Steel Legend series and the ASRock brand to increase the aesthetics of this product.

The VRM circuit on the B560M Steel Legend is built with the core of the Realtek RT3609BE controller, a controller that can decentralize a power source in a 12+1 phase configuration. However, with the segment that B560M Steel Legend aims for, ASRock has reduced the number of power phases on this motherboard to only 10+1 power phase configuration combined with Vishay SIC654 50A power stages for a total CPU current up to 500A. A fairly abundant power source for CPUs from i5 and below and non-K i7s can even meet the slight overclocking capacity of the K series i7.

Next, we will have 4 DDR4 RAM slots that support memory overclocking up to 4800MHz. At the same time, part of the edge of the PCB board is stylized by the prominent Steel Legend lettering thanks to the integrated RGB lighting in this area. B560M Steel Legend will, of course, also support syncing and customizing RGB lighting on the system via ASRock Polychrome with two popular types of LEDs, ARGB 5v and RGB 12v.

As a platform for next-generation processors, of course, the B560 motherboards will also support a host of new technological features. Prominent is the PCI Express Gen4 interface. On ASRock B560M Steel Legend will also support this interface with M.2 NVME PCIe Gen4 storage, of course, a PCIe 4.0 graphics card.

In addition, the B560M Steel Legend also has a second M.2 NVME storage slot located near the B560 chipset, but this slot only supports PCIe 3.0 interface. An M.2 (KeyE) slot is ready to install the Wi-Fi module.

As a popular motherboard, the B560M Steel Legend is equipped with just enough audio solutions to bring audio experiences to users with the Realtek ALC897 audio driver chip and Nichicon audio filter capacitors.

A technology worth mentioning on the B560M Steel Legend is that ASRock also equips this motherboard with a 2.5Gbps network connection through the Dragon RTL8125BG network controller chip.

The number of rear I/O ports of the B560M Steel Legend is quite rich, but unfortunately, there is no appearance of a high-speed USB Type-C connection.

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