Review on Gigabyte B460M DS3H Motherboard (LGA1200/Intel/B460/Micro ATX/M.2/SATA 6Gb/s/USB 3.2 Gen 1/DDR4) by Stephen Chowdary

As I need a 10th gen core capable motherboard and long time gigabyte user I tried this product as it was very cheap and most of the features bot i wanted. logical structure. Since then, the price has increased by ten dollars. I use this board with i5-10500. Note that the B460 chipset limits you to DDR4-2666 memory. This is the only functional limitation of this board, but using this chipset also comes with an attractive price point. You need the Z490 chipset to support higher memory speeds. Faster memory can help with older games that aren't GPU limited to around 10%, but that's a fairly small factor compared to the money it takes to buy a proper Z490 board. This board allows you to play around with CPU performance limits. , However. With my 65W i5-10500 I was able to raise the performance limit so that all 6 cores could be used at 4.2 GHz. At 65W you get 3.7GHz with all 6 cores loaded, so that's quite a functional advantage. I can't get the CPU to draw more than 85W regardless of the settings, but this may be due to the inability to increase the 42x 6-core turbo multiplier. The settings are there, but I think you must have a K-series processor for them to work. There are many other power and clock speed settings in BIOS that you can use to efficiently overclock K-series parts, but without memory speed. Beyond 2666MHz I doubt this board can be considered a good platform for them. Probably, VRM also has limitations when it comes to overclocking. This works great for my turbocharged i5, although I would use DDR4-3200 if the B460 chipset supported it. Also note that a Gigabyte Z490 board can be had for $80-$100 more than this product, the Z490 UD. This board also limits you to DDR4-2666 if you use i5 processors. I suspect it will run DDR4-3200 with i7 but you have to choose MSI or Asus if you want DDR4-3200 with i5. That's why I bought the B460M DS3H instead of the Z490 UD - in practice it does the same thing to my processor for a lot less money. All in all, apart from the DDR4-2666 limitation of the B460 chipset, this is a very suitable board for the mainstream market. or slightly more demanding applications. The layout is very good for mATX, and although I haven't used it yet, the NVMe M2 support is nice. Overclockers need an MSI or Asus Z490 board; In fact, everyone else can make good use of it. 10 Around 1909