If i remember it correctly new platform has increased power requirements and that may have added to the cost.
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Alder Lake-S leaks
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The boards always start out higher when a new line are released. The B450 tomahawk was £100 yet the B550 tomahawk was like £180 but has dropped down now after milking the early adopters.
Don't blame the manufacturers at all, they charge what they charge and people pay what they pay. I just find it interesting that when the x570 Intel users laughed at the prices of boards but now roles are reversed and Intel users are using teh same excuses that AMD users where using
There is a lot BS on these forums. You have to filter them from the enthusiast posts and some with handfuls of salt.
I’m a motherboard and PSU snob. That really annoys a certain group of people on here. To be fair though, I’m looking for more from a motherboard than to just act a socket platform to best show the latest £1500 Nvidia card in its best light or hide it’s short comings.
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PCI Express 4.0 is what I am expecting. If they go with PCI-E 3.0 like they did in Z590 I'm pretty sure some people will not be happy even if they up the lanes to 16.
1 Thunderbolt 4 on ful speed if link to chipset is PCI-E 3.0 x16 will take about a quater of bandwidth as per my calculation.
Yeah, should be direct link to the CPU ideally.
I believe that was the initial plan but the above link from cliffy says discrete which in my understanding means through the chipset.
Gigabyte z690 alder lake boards briefly appear for pre order in Australia, prices $50usd higher than z590
https://videocardz.com/newz/gigabyte-z690-aorus-master-and-elite-motherboards-listed-in-australia
https://videocardz.com/newz/gigabyte-z690-aorus-master-and-elite-motherboards-listed-in-australia
Too expensive
Seems like some motherboards prices are going up.
Graphic cards don't need nor can utilise PCIe 5.0, but NVMe drives should be far sooner be able to use the bandwidth.
So if I was buying, I'd run the GPU at x16 PCIe 4.0 and use the x16 PCIe 5.0 slot for upto 4 NVMe drives. Assuming runnign the GPU off the chipset isn't a bottleneck.
So if I was buying, I'd run the GPU at x16 PCIe 4.0 and use the x16 PCIe 5.0 slot for upto 4 NVMe drives. Assuming runnign the GPU off the chipset isn't a bottleneck.
4 Gen5 NVME drives are going to cost a fair chunk until we see mass adoption and the world has dealt with the chip shortage.
Mass adoption isn’t going to happen until EPYC uses PCI-E 5 and the silicon shortage isn’t going away until the pandemic ends.
Will any manufacturers even produce motherboards with 4x NVME gen 5 slots. I think it would be difficult to that type of design past product development.
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Though I wouldn't mind I would doubt that we will see PCI_E 5.0 x16 any time soon.
Wow if those prices are true, it brought tears to my eyes... Since when did Aorus Master boards become that expensive.... Assuming its AUD thats around $570 USD which is about £80 more than what the Z590 Master boards are now!