MAXSUN B460M iCraft Micro-ATX Motherboard Pictured: B460 Has Overclocking Capabilities?

[btarunr]

Here are some of the first pictures of an Intel B460 chipset motherboard, the B460M iCraft by Chinese company MAXSUN, which is mostly available around the Greater China region. What caught our eye are the board's various features geared toward CPU overclocking, including buttons on the rear I/O that apparently give you CPU overclocking (cycling through presets). This makes us wonder if Intel is giving the B460 some form of CPU overclocking capability, even if not to the level of the Z490. Intel's rival AMD, has been offering full CPU overclocking capability on its middle-of-the-market B350, B450, and possibly its upcoming B550 motherboards, which, coupled with AMD enabling unlocked multiplier across its Ryzen desktop processor family, brings tremendous value to the table. The MAXSUN B460M iCraft is equipped with elaborate shrouds over the PCH and VRM heatsinks. It also offers two reinforced PCI-Express x16 slots, from which the top one is gen 3.0 x16, and the bottom one likely gen 3.0 x4. We also find two M.2 NVMe slots, both with heatsinks.



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[Midland Dog]

see H97 (overclocking capabilities)

 

[watzupken]

To allow proper overclock on this board, it means they really need to beef up the power delivery and cooling on the board. This will likely lead to higher cost. If I want to get a K series chip which tends to cost a lot more than the non-overclocking ones, I likely will not skimp on getting a decent board in the first place.