ASUS TUF GAMING B760-PLUS WIFI D4 review

The TUF Gaming B760-Plus WiFi D4 is a full-size ATX board on Intel's B760 chipset. It takes 12th, 13th and 14th Gen Core chips in the LGA1700 socket, plus Pentium Gold and Celeron. The "D4" in the name matters: it has four DDR4 slots, so it suits anyone reusing DDR4 memory or building around it.

Memory runs dual channel, non-ECC and unbuffered. ASUS lists speeds from 2133 up to 5333 (OC), depending on the CPU and configuration. The global spec page gives a 192GB maximum across the four slots.

The board has three M.2 slots, and all three run at PCIe 4.0 x4. The first is attached to the CPU and takes 2242, 2260 and 2280 drives. The second is attached to the chipset and also takes 22110 drives. The third is chipset-attached and takes 2242 to 2280. Four SATA 6Gb/s ports sit alongside them, with Intel RST RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 support.

With three fast NVMe slots and four SATA ports, it suits a build that mixes a boot drive, scratch storage and a few bulk disks.

The main graphics slot is PCIe 5.0 x16, attached to the CPU. A second full-length slot is PCIe 3.0 and runs at x4 from the chipset. Two PCIe 3.0 x1 slots complete the set. The x16 slot shares bandwidth with the x1 slots, so check which slots you populate if you plan to add several cards.

Display outputs are one DisplayPort 1.4 and one HDMI 2.1. That helps if you plan to run a CPU's integrated graphics.

The rear panel has a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C port at 20Gbps, which is the fastest port on the board. There is also one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A port, three USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports and one USB 2.0 port. That gives six USB ports in total on the rear. A front USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C connector runs at 10Gbps for a case's front panel.

There is no rear USB4 port. An internal Thunderbolt (USB4) header is listed, but that is a header, not a rear port.

Wired networking is Realtek 2.5GbE with TUF LANGuard. Wireless is Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax, 2x2) with Bluetooth 5.2. There is no Wi-Fi 7. For a desk near a router this is likely enough, but anyone wanting the newest wireless standard will not find it here.

The VRM uses 12+1 DrMOS power stages. The 12-phase section is rated at 50A per stage, and the single-phase section at 60A. An enlarged heatsink covers the VRM. Those ratings and the extra heatsink mass point to a board built for the CPUs in its socket range rather than a minimal budget design.

ASUS doesn't publish a sustained-load or temperature figure for the VRM. Buyers planning to pair it with the most power-hungry chip in the socket should look for VRM temperature results for that chip before committing.

The board has a 128Mb flash ROM with an AMI UEFI BIOS. It includes EZ Flash 3 for updating, CrashFree BIOS 3 for recovery, and an EZ mode front page. EZ mode system tuning offers only normal and power saving options. ASUS keeps its AI overclocking features for higher-priced boards, so this one suits users who set their own values manually or leave things alone.

A third-party BIOS tracker, not an ASUS statement, notes that microcode releases 0x129 and 0x12B address elevated voltage requests at idle and light load.

It suits a DDR4-based LGA1700 build that needs plenty of NVMe storage, a 20Gbps USB-C port and 2.5GbE without paying for newer platform features. The Wi-Fi 6 radio, absent rear USB4 and basic EZ mode tuning are the clearest limits. Anyone who needs those features should compare other boards before choosing this one.