Budget Gaming PCs may be back with these Alder Lake MSI B660 Motherboard price leaks
A reputable source has revealed the pricing for some MSI B660 boards.
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Finally some good news for any folks out there trying to build a PC on a budget. An accidental early listing has given us a look at how much the upcoming line of Intel’s B660 chipset motherboards are going to be, and the prices didn’t even make me cry a little.
Once again, we have the reputable leakermomomo_uson Twitter to thank for this new glimpse into what could be a new, more affordable PC gaming future. The account shared some of theearly specs for cheaper Alder Lake mobos, and nowshares the listingsfor some of MSI’s range of Intel’s B660 motherboards which range from as cheap as €148.29 up to €186.87, which is great news for anyone looking to dip their toes into Alder Lake.
ho-ho- pic.twitter.com/wcfC11p4AqDecember 22, 2021
In thetweet, the prices are shared in an image, but here it is in text form to make it a little easier.
MSI Mag B660M Mortar WiFi DDR4 – €186.87 Euros
MSI Mag B660M Mortar DDR4 – €172.14 Euros
MSI Pro B660M A WiFi DDR4 – €162.32 Euros
MSI Mag B660M Bazooka DDR4 – €155.44 Euros
The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
MSI Pro B660M A DDR4 – €148.29 Euros
Best gaming monitor: pixel-perfect panels for your PCBest high refresh rate monitor: screaming quick screensBest 4K monitor for gaming: when only high-res will doBest 4K TV for gaming: big-screen 4K PC gaming
Currently if you’re building an Alder Lake PC you’re using a Z690 board, like theASRock Z690 Taichi. Good Z690 mobos absolutely pack a bunch of features in, but they also lean on the more expensive side thanks to this. Even the cheaper (relatively speaking)MSI MPG Z690 Carbon Wifi motherboardisn’t really cheap. MSI’s upcomingGodlike is going to be one epic exampleof an absolutely not cheap Alder Lake board, so it’s nice to see the B660s priced so reasonably.
This is going to pair especially well with one ofIntel’s new lower powered 12th gen chips coming up soon. The i5 12400 is lookingparticularly special for a budget CPU, and momomo_us even leakedprices for these for us just recently too.
B660s are quite stripped down when it comes to connectivity options when you compare them to a Z690 board. There’s only one PCIe Gen 5 slot, for example, but for most gamers it’s still more than enough, and there are far fewer sacrifices than other budget options. Cheap PCs seem possible again, all you’d have to do isfind a graphics card, somehow.
Hope’s been writing about games for about a decade, starting out way back when on the Australian Nintendo fan site Vooks.net. Since then, she’s talked far too much about games and tech for publications such as Techlife, Byteside, IGN, and GameSpot. Of course there’s also here at PC Gamer, where she gets to indulge her inner hardware nerd with news and reviews. You can usually find Hope fawning over some art, tech, or likely a wonderful combination of them both and where relevant she’ll share them with you here. When she’s not writing about the amazing creations of others, she’s working on what she hopes will one day be her own. You can find herfictional chill out ambient far future sci-fi radio show/album/listening experience podcastright here.
No, she’s not kidding.
I don’t know whether I’d wait for Black Friday when there are already RTX 4070 Super gaming PCs going for so little
You can now turn your Raspberry Pi 5 into a proper retro gaming PC with official hardware as the manufacturer just released its own PCIe 3.0 SSDs
Co-op survival game Icarus is celebrating 153 consecutive weekly updates by giving you a flamethrower and a free weekend
