Maxsun iCraft B760M Cross Motherboard Review – Anime-Themed With Great Design & Features For $150

Conclusion - White mATX Design With Great Features & An Anime-Touch

Maxsun's iCraft B760M Cross motherboard offers a great visual experience in terms of design. The motherboard has a white PCB which is very uncommon to see on entry-level motherboards and is nice for users who are planning white-budget PC builds. There are a lot of white hardware options for budget users out there when it comes to component choices and Maxsun is offering that with its motherboards.

In terms of performance, the motherboard has a 12+1+1 phase power delivery solution which ran the Intel Core i9-13900K fine in the default mode. The performance is on par with the Z790 options in this price range and a unique feature of this motherboard is that it allows users to select 253W as the PL1 TDP which gives a nice boost in performance over the standard 125W PL1 mode but it should be mentioned that Intel's baseline guidance sets the PL1 to 125W and PL2 to 253W so the settings offered by Maxsun may lead to slight instability issues. The issue is less prominent on the B760 series motherboards but we still advise running the CPUs at the default limits. One plus side of this mode is that since the B760 series doesn't officially support BCLK overclocking on K-series SKUs, the 253W PL1 mode can be used to gain better performance when needed.

For memory support, DDR5-7200 is the maximum listed spec for this motherboard and we did run into some issues when booting up the test setup for the first time. The system ran into four loops after which we never encountered the issue. XMP mode is supported so the G.Skill DDR5-7200 kit ran at its official XMP profile.

In terms of storage options, you are getting three M.2 slots with dedicated heatsinks and four SATA III ports. This is the basic storage configuration one should expect from a $150 B760 motherboard. One of the M.2 slots is located underneath the I/O cover which can make installation a bit flimsy.

USB support is good with a total of 16 ports available (7 front panel and 9 on the back) and a 2.5 GbE LAN port t plus there's also the ALC897 codec for audio which can be a bit lacking since it's an older generation. There are 3 fan headers, 1 pump header, 2 ARGB headers, and one RGB header on the motherboard. For those who want to use more fans, well they might be limited & will have to use splitters or 3rd party connections to run additional fans.

Maxsun's iCraft B760M Cross motherboard is a decently built B760 motherboard that features an anime theme but if you look past that, you are getting a nice white-colored motherboard with a nice set of features that are ample for this price point. At $149 US, the Maxsun iCraft Cross is a solid LGA 1700 socketed design and we look forward to more such designs aiming at the value segment in the future.

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