Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Every summer this time, there will be a wave of installation boom. When it comes to installation, many small partners with limited budgets will give priority to spending large amounts of money on CPU, graphics cards and power supplies. Although the motherboard is three major pieces of performance, the treatment seems to be a little worse, so many cost-effective cheap motherboards have become the first choice for users with installed needs.

Take this year's mainstream B760 platform as an example, if you want both cost performance and big brand, but also want to taste DDR5, Giga Magic Eagle B760M GAMING WIFI this cheap motherboard should enter your field of vision.

design

The first is to open the box, although the positioning is not high, Gigatech still provides it with a classic orange and black wind color outer box packaging, the front of the packaging is printed with the name model, supported platform and its two selling points, namely support for 4 years warranty service and DDR5 memory.

After opening the package, it contains the motherboard body, IO interface baffle, dual-band wireless card, extension cable and product manual.

This motherboard and another GAMING AC belong to the brother model, the color no longer uses red and black armor and memory, PCIe and other slots embellishment, but changed to silver. This set of armor, together with white memory, water cooling and other hardware, can be combined into a white host with high face value. In addition, the CPU interface is the LGA1700 socket, which supports Intel 12/13 generation CPU, but considering the maximum operation efficiency, it is recommended to use the 13 generation CPU with it.

Gigahawk B760M GAMING WIFI motherboard uses 6+2+1 phase power supply, the relevant parts are covered with silver cooling armor, compared with the same price products upgraded to VRM cooling full coverage, and M.2 main hard disk bit also gives cooling armor, the overall workmanship is relatively solid, the arrangement of components is also very regular.

The motherboard is equipped with two M.2 solid state hard disk positions. The main hard disk position comes with thick heat dissipation armor, and the inner side comes with a heat sink. The interface specification is PCIe4.0 standard, matching the standard 2280 hard disk. The second hard disk at the bottom comes with a quick-fix buckle design, while the upper hard disk does not need screws if it is not equipped with its own heat dissipation armor, which is very convenient.

The PCI-E slot is painted blue and gray. Of course, due to the size of the M-ATX motherboard, the configuration of the PCI-E slot will be conservative. The Gigahawk B760M GAMING WIFI motherboard is equipped with one PCI-E x16 slot and one PCI-E 4.0 slot.

Memory slot part, standard with two support DDR5 specification black slot, next to printed processor and motherboard platform support information.

Jumper area part of the design is relatively compact, but complete, integrated on the motherboard faster and more powerful dual-band wireless network card, support 802.11ac WIFI + Bluetooth 4.2, so that users can switch freely between 2.4G and 5G bands. Dual antenna design makes the wireless signal of the motherboard more stable and efficient.

The lower left corner of the motherboard is the familiar yellow audio capacitor, next to the classic "small crab"ACL897 sound card chip.

In terms of I / O interface, the configuration given by Gigahawk B760M GAMING WIFI motherboard is relatively balanced and comprehensive, and various types of interfaces are complete, so as to take care of the compatibility of old equipment as much as possible. For example, USB interfaces include USB2.0 and USB1.1 that support old peripherals, as well as three USB3.2 Gen1 ports with transmission rates up to 5Gbps; HDMI, VGA, DP are available on video output interfaces. In short, the interface is not picky about all kinds of external equipment, old and new technologies are supported, this is more humane.

BIOS functions

Next, let's take a look at the actual performance of this motherboard after installation. This time, the accompanying hardware we choose is also the main cost performance, such as the 12th generation Core i5- 12490F and RTX 4060Ti graphics card. In line with the angle of closer to the needs of the installed party, it will not blindly stack high configuration. The specific hardware is shown in the figure.

After booting, use CPU-Z to show the test board U information, i5- 12490F + GigaB760M configuration combination, the main cost-effective pragmatic route.

Then let's take a look at the BIOS function. The motherboard BIOS interface of Giga is still good. It supports simplified Chinese. The simple mode is clear and clear. You can see the basic information when the motherboard and computer hardware are running. There are also many switch options for shortcut functions. The ease of use experience is in place.

In terms of detailed functions, you can see fan settings in the lower right corner of the simple mode page, Q-Flash PLUS quick update BIOS, traditional mode switching, etc., such as fan adjustment function options are very rich; insert external devices containing update files, and update quickly without booting.

However, when it comes to Gigatech's traditional arts, it has to be the memory high bandwidth and low latency function. We can quickly find these two options in the frequency/voltage control menu page in BIOS. By default, they are in automatic state, but they are actually turned off. These two technologies can automatically reduce memory latency and improve memory read and write performance, improving bandwidth utilization of memory channels. Let's do a quick test to see if it works.

The default frequency of the memory stick we equipped this time is 6400MHz. The first pass does not touch any memory settings. Run the memory running tool once in AIDA64. At this time, the read and write points are 69172MB/s and 67650MB/s respectively, and the delay is 89.9ns.

The second time we enter the BIOS settings to open the XMP option, other settings do not move, Intel platform with XMP memory overclocking technology, up to DDR5 7600MHz, running full of our prepared memory should be no problem. When only the XMP option is turned on, the memory read and write score has increased by about 2W minutes to 89074MB/s and 88130MB/s, and the performance has increased by about 28% at once, while the latency has been reduced to 69.4ns.

In the third pass, on the basis of turning on the XMP option, we turned on the high bandwidth and low latency options in the BIOS at the same time, all of which were set to ON, and the other parts that required manual operation remained unchanged.

Open AIDA64 memory test run again, read and write speed increased by 1W+, respectively reached 94998MB/s and 100340MB/s, the increase is also about 14%, memory latency further reduced to 63.9ns. Just turn on a few switches can be immediate, speed is not inferior to the factory 7600MHz high-frequency memory, do not understand the memory overclocking white users too friendly, equivalent to free "get" a pair of flagship memory sticks.

GIGABYTE B760M GAMING WIFI motherboard can also use GIGABYTE CONTROL CENTER software to set and manage certain motherboard and computer hardware, such as RGB light synchronization, fan settings, check driver and update, etc., which are also very practical functions.

running performance

In terms of power supply performance, we used AIDA64 to conduct a simple single bake test. We can see that after 15 minutes of baking, the CPU power consumption stabilized at 75W, and the CPU frequency was around 4 GHz. At this time, the motherboard temperature was not high, and it was maintained at about 41 degrees.

Then we use CineBench to test the performance of CPU on this board. In CineBench R20, i5- 12490F's single-core score is 670 points, and the multi-core score is 4720 points, which belongs to normal play. In the test, the performance of Gigahawk B760M GAMING WIFI motherboard is stable.

In the CineBench R23, the i5- 12490F processor scored 1737 points for single-core and 12222 points for multi-core, both of which performed well.

Finally, let's test the game performance briefly to see how stable this configuration is in the real game environment. In the excellent optimization of the old 3A masterpiece Tomb Raider: Shadow, we chose 1080P highest quality, running the benchmark tool with an average frame number of 173 frames, and the performance was excellent.

In the relatively more configured 3A game "Wild Escort 2: Redemption," we chose 2K resolution default quality, the average frame number can also be stable at 60 frames, playing is not a problem.

Summary Now motherboard manufacturers have not only paid attention to flagship products, for mid-range and even entry-level products, they will also attach great importance to the configuration of some exclusive technologies. For example, Giga Magic Eagle B760M GAMING WIFI motherboard has added DDR5 memory support, and it can improve the overall performance of memory by more than 10% for free through high bandwidth and low latency technology without miscellaneous operation. This is undoubtedly one of its advantages.

In addition, in terms of workmanship materials, Gigahawk B760M GAMING WIFI also gives its own volume method, such as full coverage of heat dissipation armor, silver coating, solid state hard disk slot is also equipped with heat sink and quick release design, I / O interface is rich in compatibility with old peripherals, etc., all kinds of details are considered, which also makes the cost performance of this board excellent, and the comprehensive performance is more balanced and reliable.

It is worth mentioning that if you are a memory overclocking enthusiast, then after purchasing the Giga700 series motherboard, it is suggested that you can sign up for the "D5 Black Technology Power Release" memory overclocking competition recently opened by Giga700. You only need to upload screenshots of your own memory overclocking results according to regulations to have a chance to win rich prizes including i7- 13700K, M27Q display, memory, etc. It is a rare opportunity to challenge it!

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