https://www.techpowerup.com/290375/some-asus-b660-and-h610-matx-motherboard-pricing-leaks With less than a week to the expected announcement for the rest of Intel's Alder Lake family of CPUs, as well as accompanying motherboards, pricing has leaked on a few ASUS B660 and H610 motherboards from a somewhat more unusual location, namely Ecuador. Courtesy of @harukaze5719, who tends to leak all sorts of things on Twitter, we now have a rough idea of what some of ASUS' upcoming motherboards will cost.
The models leaked are the Prime B660M-A WIFI D4, Prime B660M-A D4 and Prime H610M-E D4, all of which are fairly basic models and maybe the most noteworthy thing about them is how little you get for your money. The Prime B660M-A WIFI D4 is listed for US$191.11, which includes 12 percent VAT, although the official currency in Ecuador is US dollars. That said, electronics are normally more pricey in Ecuador than the US, so this should also be taken into account here.
Going without WiFi brings down the Prime B660M-A D4 to US$165.56, which suggests the cost of products with WiFi are higher in Ecuador than in most other countries. Finally we have the Prime H610M-E D4, a board that doesn't deserve to have the word prime in its model name, which is listed at US$121.11. It's possibly the most basic motherboard we've seen in a while and we'd be surprised if it would allow the higher-end Alder Lake CPUs to boost to their full potential.
The Prime H610M-E D4 lacks PCIe 5.0 support and apart from the x16 PCIe 4.0 slot for the GPU, there's a single PCIe 3.0 x1 slot. The lack of slots is not due to a wealth of M.2 slots either, although the board does at least have two of those, but we can't make out if they're PCIe 4.0 or 3.0 from the silk screening on the motherboard. Furthermore we're looking at two DIMM slots, four SATA ports and a whopping two rear USB 3.0 ports, with a further two from a front panel header. At least the board has both DP and HDMI display outputs, as well as a VGA connector, so this board could be ok for a basic office PC.
The Prime B660M-A boards also lack PCIe 5.0 support from what we can tell and aren't all that much more well equipped. The boards have two additional, physical x16 slots, but they appear to be x1 and x4 electrically and at least the top one is only PCIe 3.0. At least one of the two M.2 slots come with a heatsink here and it's pretty clear that that slot is PCIe 4.0. Again, we spot four SATA ports, but here we get a full set of four DIMM slots. In the USB department things aren't much better here, but around the back there are at least two USB 3.2 10 Gbps ports, with a front header for a further two, plus a single header for USB 3.2 20 Gbps port. Two HDMI ports and a DP port rounds off the feature set.
In my opinion you're better off with a Z690 low level motherboard.
