MSI B660 Alder Lake Motherboards Allegedly Leak, Priced From $119

Intel thrust the Alder Lake-S processors onto the Computer scene in early November, led by the brawny Main i9-12900K, asserting dominance in gaming and multi-threaded benchmarks. Not astonishingly, they speedily landed on our checklist of the greatest CPUs for gaming. Currently, Alder Lake processors can only be paired with pricey Z690 motherboards, but a tweet from chi11eddog (via WCCFTech) alleges that MSI is ready to supply at least ten B660-dependent motherboards focusing on additional mainstream players.

We need to sprinkle a major dose of salt on these allegations, but here is what MSI allegedly has in the B660 pipeline, together with approximated MSRPs for the motherboards:

Alleged MSI B660 Motherboards
Motherboard	Cost
Mag B660 Tomahawk WiFi	$259
Mag B660M Mortar WiFi	$239
Mag B660M Mortar	$219
Magazine B660M Bazooka	$199
Pro B660-A	$209
Pro B660M-A- WiFi	$209
Professional B660M-A	$189
Pro B660M-G	$139
Pro B660M-B	$129
Pro B660M-E	$119

For those wanting for a discount-basement motherboard for Alder Lake, the Professional B660M-E appears to be your ideal bet with an MSRP of $119. From there, rates immediately ramp via the $209 Pro B660-A to the flagship Mag B660 Tomahawk WiFi, which lists for $259.

According to chi11eddog, all the motherboards previously mentioned occur with DDR5 memory assistance. DDR4 counterparts have been nowhere to be identified, according to the leaker. DDR5-only assist is curious, as MSI offers Z690 motherboards with both DDR4 (a la the Z690 Tomahawk WiFi DDR4) or DDR5 help. So it would make feeling that MSI’s B660 motherboards, which goal extra cost-acutely aware customers, would provide DDR4 variants.

Following all, supporting DDR4 would enable MSI’s B660 motherboards to hit even lower price points and enable prospects to use their existing modules. Unfortunately, with an all-DDR5 technique, you’re placing undue pricing strain on mainstream prospects, presented the included fees involved for the modules.

We ought to also point out that out of the ten motherboards that leaked, only two are regular ATX motherboards the rest use a microATX kind-variable. But, once more, this is also just a rumor at this stage, so maintain that salt shaker helpful.

Intel’s CES 2022 keynote is scheduled for January 4th, so we are going to probably hear a lot more about the B660 chipset, Alder Lake-S “non-K” desktop processors, and the upcoming Alder Lake-P cell processor family members. In addition, we need to also listen to more at CES 2022 about the hugely anticipated Intel Arc household of discrete graphics cards.