Soldato
If these things turn out to be to expensive I'm out seems to high for a motherboard if you ask.me ..and the price of ddr 5 won't go down well with ppl either...
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Alder Lake-S leaks
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Soldato
Silly motherboard pricing is here to stay. The precedent was set with X570 and the boatload of PCIe 4 retimers and whatnot slapped on. So with X570 set at a high price, B550 could be hiked up a chunk, whilst still being "lower cost" than X570. Then Coffee Lake and Rocket Lake boards required a boat load of decent VRMs and cooling to drive those hilarious CPUs, which adds cost.
And now there's no incentive to drop costs back down again. Watch X670 boards for Zen 4 be stupid money; the TRX40 boards showed that vendors had properly worked out how to implement PCIe 4 without a load of retimers (TRX40 boards aren't much more expensive than X570 boards), but that cost saving will just become increased profits, especially if Alder Lake boards are silly money too.
And now there's no incentive to drop costs back down again. Watch X670 boards for Zen 4 be stupid money; the TRX40 boards showed that vendors had properly worked out how to implement PCIe 4 without a load of retimers (TRX40 boards aren't much more expensive than X570 boards), but that cost saving will just become increased profits, especially if Alder Lake boards are silly money too.
Aorus Master is top tier motherboard and if chipset prices went up and power delivery requirements went up and wiring requirements requires more expensive solutions due to new technology plus manufacturers need to make profit. What is more shocking for me is the Elite price tag probably due to the same reasons. I am not optimistic about prices.
Mental, looking at £1k plus easily for just mobo and cpu then add another £300-400 for ram if its DDR5. Not worth it unless you're running a 10 year old system and have money to spend. To add ontop may even need a new cooler as the socket is different unless they come out with new adapters to fit existing coolers.
1k may not be enough, I would think 1.5k alltogether for top tier CPU, MB, RAM and eventually cooler.
Bring back Sandybridge days, did a full upgrade for less than £600! I thought that was pretty dear at the time.
Soldato
Can't wait to see how many ppl pay these prices silly money.
These days 1500 will get you a gpu
Soldato
I payed 1600 for my 3090 lol . But seeing prices now glad I got it when they were at that price.
These days 1500 will get you a gpu
And not even the top one.
Better power control, better sound, better network, fanless chipset cooling - a lot of money for little improvements but if one needs it he pays the price.
Aside from the sound quality the other stuff is hardly noticeable.
I would say that even sound quality difference would be hard to notice nowadays but there are people who need certain features and are ready to pay for them so manufacturers are offering it with the pricetag.
It's often just the marketing or FOMO so people think they need these features when in reality they often don't and are probably not benefiting at all for the extra money spent.
Is AMD scared of Alder Lake?
AMD is cutting its prices ahead of the Alder Lake launch
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryz...ing-cheaper-ahead-of-intel-alder-lake-release
AMD is cutting its prices ahead of the Alder Lake launch
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryz...ing-cheaper-ahead-of-intel-alder-lake-release
Soldato
No, AMD have finished milking now that there's going to be actual competition at the end of the year. Also, previous Ryzen generations stabilised in price just under MSRP so this is nothing new.
Besides, this gives space to jack up the prices of the 3D stacked refresh end of the year, just like AMD did with the 3000 XT update.
No, same pattern every year with AMD, always lower costs around now. Zen 3+ or whatever its called will be around soon too