At this stage I'd say that it strictly relates to that exact ASUS board (which I was eyeing up before the ludacrous price
).
Not sure you read it right. It says in regards to that mobo that the way to get more life out of the AM3 cooler... is to switch it out for an AM4 cooler
Makes me chuckle when people complain about having an extra option of preordering. I think it's annoyance that they would have to take a chance and may lose out to those prepared to. Personally I'd wait as I'm not being forced to trust AMD.
As I always say some people would complain if you have everyone £1000 that they deserved more or that others didn't deserve any!
Exactly, like I said before it's not a game, even if you get it delivered it's £5 to send something back but you can cancel the order at any time. People did the same with the Switch, pre-ordered, then some people decided against it and cancelled. It's an extra option for those who are desperate to get one and want to make sure they get one(or have the option) on March 2nd(or 3rd if they ship on the 2nd).
I dislike games being pre-ordered because for one thing it can happen a year in advance based off say an E3 rendered advert which doesn't represent the final game. Another thing is pre-orders for a game can outweigh development costs, if a game turns out to be a NMS then you've turned a small group of people into millionaires for lying heavily.
Now with Zen, A early orders would amount to a few million dollars, maybe, B it's like 10 days away, not months, C AMD have spent upwards of a billion dollars on R&D for Zen, they aren't looking to recoup that from pre-orders nor will anyone run off a millionaire if they suckered a low number of people into pre-ordering. If the product flopped and sales died on day 2, AMD would be bankrupt in a couple years and no one is getting rich of the preorders.
