This year, GIGABYTE launched the Ice Sculpture series of motherboards, which feature a white high-value design and a continuation of GIGABYTE's stacking design at various price points, so that the Ice Sculpture series is not only beautiful but also very performant. The GIGABYTE B760M Ice Sculpture X motherboard we reviewed today is one of them, this motherboard is launched for the 14th Gen Core, which has outstanding appearance, and has been upgraded in terms of power supply, BIOS, memory overclocking, etc., so let's put it to the test.
1 Gigabyte B760M Ice Sculpture XThe GIGABYTE B760M Ice Sculpture X adopts the M-ATX form factor design with standard 4 memory slots, which has a pure white appearance, unlike the previous motherboards that only use pure white armor.
The GIGABYTE B760M Ice Sculpture X is equipped with a powerful power supply system, with a 14+1+1 phase power supply design, the PWM controller model is NCP81530R, and the core 14-phase power supply is DRMOS, model NCP 362155, capable of single-phase output of 60A. This power supply is enough for the mid-to-high-end Core of the 14th generation.
The Io armor above the power supply consists of two metal heat sinks, which are not equipped with thermal pads to assist in heat dissipation in the power supply area.
The CPU power supply interface adopts an 8+4pin design, and the solid pin power supply is more stable. Because the CPU's single 8pin interface is actually composed of 4+4, it can be used without plugging in, and the single 8pin interface can output up to about 350W, except for the flagship i9, the silent frequency of other processors is enough.
The GIGABYTE B760M Ice Sculpture X can also support 8266MT s of XMP memory, of course, this frequency can also be achieved depending on the quality of the CPU memory controller and the memory itself. With a maximum capacity of 192GB, GIGABYTE has also prepared a low-latency, high-bandwidth D5 memory technology in the BIOS, which can improve the baseline performance of the memory by 10%.
This motherboard offers two PCIe long slots, and the top is made of alloy armor with a bandwidth of PCIe 50x16, the buckle is enlarged and easy to disassemble. The remaining one is PCIe 40 x4 is used to expand other devices.
The Gigabyte B760M Ice Sculpt X motherboard PCIe long slot around the alloy armor underneath is M2 slots, this time GIGABYTE's armor also adopts a quick-release buckle design, which can be removed without screws.
GIGABYTE B760M Ice Sculpture X Motherboard MThere are two of the 2 slots, all of which support PCIe 40 protocol, the top is directly connected to the PCU, and the remaining one goes to the PCH.
There are 4 SATA interfaces, supporting RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10 disk arrays.
In the IO area, the GIGABYTE B760M Ice Sculpture X comes pre-installed with a white IO bezel and offers 4 USB 20 ports, 3 USB 32 Gen 2 Type-A port, one USB 32 Gen 2 Type-C port, one USB 32 Gen 2 Type-C 2x2 interface. In addition, there is a DP interface, an HDMI interface, and a 25G wired network port and WiFi 6E antenna interface.
The sound card is ALC 897 and supports 71-channel surround sound.
In terms of jumpers, this motherboard prepares 3 x 5V ARGB cables and 12V RGB cables. The GIGABYTE GCC Control Center can be used to link the lighting effects of the whole machine.
The accessory additionally provides a signal booster antenna with a base WiFi 6E network card.
2 GIGABYTE B760M Ice Sculpture X Motherboard BIOSLet's take a look at the BIOS of the GIGABYTE B760M Ice Sculpture X motherboard, the BIOS of the GIGABYTE Ice Sculpture series adopts a new style design, and the UEFI interface is also white like the appearance.
The GIGABYTE BIOS is also very comprehensive, with an OC overclocking interface that supports XMP, automatic memory overclocking, and high-bandwidth and low-latency options.
Here you can switch 104 microcode.
Advanced settings allow you to adjust CPU-related settings, such as unlocking the power wall below.
There are a variety of bottom voltage options, which can be used to buck the processor, and the amount of the buck mainly depends on the processor experience, which is generally 0Within 2V.
3 Combat Tests.Let's go to the battle test, first of all, let's take a look at the test platform:
Memory test:
Let's first test the memory, enable XMP, and compare the changes in memory performance with low latency and high bandwidth enabled.
Low-latency, high-bandwidth shutdown
Low latency, high bandwidth turn-on
It can be clearly seen that after turning on low latency and high bandwidth, the memory performance of XMP 7200 has been significantly improved in both write and read performance, and the latency has become lower, because this technology optimizes the small parameters to help users improve performance for free.
We are also against this gSkill's 7200 memory has been overclocked, and after adjusting some timings, the memory is overclocked to only 8000, and it can stabilize the memory test of AIDA 64, and the performance has been improved a little compared to the 7200 above, and the GIGABYTE B760M Ice Sculpture X motherboard is fully able to meet the needs of memory overclocking users.
CPU Test:
Next, we tested the Core i7-14700K with a step-down copy, still using the AIDA 64 software, using both FPU and CPU, and the Core i7-14700K has a step-down range of 008v。
After 20 minutes of copying, the temperature of the Core i7-14700K is around 86, at this time the power consumption reaches 216W, and the performance core has been slightly reduced, Intel's CEP is indeed a headache, and there is still no relief on the 14th generation.
However, the bucked Core i7-14700K has basically been able to play its full strength in the test, and we used Cinebench R23 to compare the multi-threaded benchmark changes of the Core i7-14700K before and after the buck.
After the buck-down, the Core i7-14700K has improved its score by nearly 1000pts in the Cinebench R23 running score, and it has been able to play 99 into the performance level of the Core i7-14700K at the Z790, through tuning, this motherboard can basically play all the performance of the mid-to-high-end tail mark K processor.
4 Write at the end.As a high-value M-ATX motherboard, the GIGABYTE B760M Ice Sculpture X is also more powerful in terms of materials this time, and the powerful power supply system is enough for the 14th generation high-end Core to play close to full performance, which is enough for a B760 motherboard. At the same time, this motherboard strengthens the memory overclocking ability, it is relatively easy to achieve more than 8000 memory, and the frequency of D5 memory is getting higher and higher, and the GIGABYTE B760M Ice Sculpture X can also handle high-frequency DDR5 memory with ease.
GIGABYTE B760M Ice Sculpture X also has an excellent BIOS design, through the BIS functions to optimize the platform in depth, feel that the processor temperature is too high can be reduced by microcode step-down, to get stronger memory performance, GIGABYTE also provides high bandwidth and low latency technology, and for memory overclocking users, not only this motherboard can support up to 8266MT s memory, GIGABYTE also provides a variety of overclocking preset gears, and can detect memory particles in the BIOS, providing users with a reference for overclockingIt also provides lazy and novice players with the ability to overclock memory with one click.
At present, GIGABYTE B760M Ice Sculpture X has been sold on JD.com, priced at 1699 yuan, users who need it can consider it, this motherboard is suitable for mid-to-high-end tail mark K processors, and the pure white appearance is very suitable for creating a white host.