Copper die-casting die steel is usually used in severe rugged environment. Liquid metal flows with high temperature and high pressure during injection and provides rapid filling of the die cavity. The copper die-casting steel should has excellent combination of the properties of high toughness, wear resistance, hardness, thermal fatigue resistance, oxidation resistance and corrosion resistance at high temperature for the cavity surface of die-casting die suffers high pressure, scour, erosion and thermal shock. A new kind of copper alloy die-casting die steel with pure austenitic matrix was conducted in this work, wherein the boride with high thermal stability and high hardness distributes in the austenitic matrix. The mechanical properties of copper alloy die-casting die steel at high temperature of 850 ℃ were studied using dynamic thermal-mechanical simulation testing machine. The thermal fatigue behavior of die steel at room temperature to 800 ℃ was performed using self-restraint Uddeholm thermal fatigue test method, and the depth extension status of surface thermal fatigue cracks and cross-sectional cracks in die steel thermal fatigue specimens was measured using stereo microscope and SEM. The effects of B content on the mechanical properties at room temperature and high temperature and on the thermal fatigue resistance were evaluated. The experimental results showed that boride distributes in austenitic matrix in the form of M₂B-type boride (M represents Fe, Cr or Mn) after adding B in the tested steels, and the comprehensive performances of steel at high temperatures were effectively improved, the hardness of the steel at room temperature increased from 200 HV to 302 HV, the tensile yield strength at 850 ℃ increased from 144.3 MPa to 190.3 MPa, and the compressive yield strength increased from 139.7 MPa to 167.9 MPa. Evaluation of the degree of heat checking on 300 cyc of thermal fatigue testing at room temperature to 800 ℃ showed that the die steel containing B was rating 2~3, much better than rating 7~8 of electroslag remelting ESR-H13 steel for comparison, which mainly because the thermal fatigue cracks were blunted or deflected by boride, and then the cracks spread as scattering shapes was avoided.