USB 3.2 Gen1 - Comprehensive Review and Best Price by Stanislaw Kosciukiew ᠌

Name: 🔧 GIGABYTE B560 HD3 Motherboard: LGA 1200/ Intel/ B560/ ATX/Dual M.2/ PCIe 4.0/ USB 3.2 Gen1 - Comprehensive Review and Best Price
Item: 🔧 GIGABYTE B560 HD3 Motherboard: LGA 1200/ Intel/ B560/ ATX/Dual M.2/ PCIe 4.0/ USB 3.2 Gen1 - Comprehensive Review and Best Price
Rating: 4

May 03, 2023

I like the product, the quality did not disappoint.

In general, the motherboard suits everyone, except for the problem with sound described above. Because of her, I even wanted to pass the checkmate. a fee, but it didn’t work out (they didn’t find a defect in the store, and it was too lazy to go further to other examinations). As a result, I solved the problem by buying an internal sound card - everything is perfect on it, no interference, and the sound is a little, but better. By the way, reviews about pickups are not isolated, even on foreign sites, so the problem exists. Perhaps it does not always appear, or not everyone is so bothered by quiet background noise.

Pros

A solid motherboard, especially if overclocking is not planned. Initially, I was looking for a motherboard for the already existing 10th generation i7-10700 processor. I was choosing between this and MSI Z490-A PRO, I settled on the Gigabyte version, since I was not going to overclock the processor. For those who also want to use a 10th generation processor - in this case, the SSD must be installed in the lower of the two connectors (M2A_SB). The upper M2P_CPU only works with 11th generation processors. The 3200 memory booted with XMP without problems (one click in the BIOS).

Cons

Here in the reviews there is one with minuses with the phrase "Disadvantages: Noises when moving the mouse." It was only after I bought it that I realized what that meant. When headphones are plugged into the audio jack, a subtle background noise is heard in the background. The noise reacts to mouse movements (becomes more distinct), as well as to the operation of the processor and video card. When running benchmarks and renders at the time of loading the video card, distinct noises and crackles appear in the headphones, similarly when starting games. Most likely it's some kind of interference, but I tried to cut off all possible factors, I even launched the motherboard separately from the case on a wooden floor (I even removed the processor cooler, on the motherboard only percent, memory and SSD) - the noise remains. Somewhere they write that the problem may be in the power supply, but my old motherboard from Gigabyte does not have such noise with the same power supply. When headphones are connected through the front panel, the noise is much less and is audible only if you deliberately try to hear it. It is especially strange to see such interference noise when Gigabyte describes this board as "High-quality audio capacitors, noise shielding and LED tracing of the audio subsystem area." Not exactly a drawback, but there are only 3 SYS_FAN connectors on the board - without splitters, you can't put 1 cooler in the back and 3 in the front, so I put only two coolers in the front.