Motherboard prices

[dave28]

My previous two mobos were :

Maximus Hero in 2014 for £165.
Maximus Hero in 2017 for £250.

So i go to look today and a Hero is an eye watering £460.

Ok i get it there is inflation and raising costs but this is just seems to be ridiculous.

Let me guess, for £165 these days you get a budget Mobo

 

[dave28]

They are more expensive to make now than ever due to the faster pcie specs. The are saying all pcie 5.0 boards will be £100-150 more due to the costs of adding pcie 5.0. Then add ddr5.. Prices will be even more silly.

People are in for a real shock next upgrade.

Doesnt look good if that is the case, will just have forget fancy Mobo`s going forward. It was nice while it lasted

 

[dave28]

Here in Finland we have a saying: Stupid isn't the one who asks, but the one who pays. (the price)

Consumer masses are just constantly paying higher and higher brand/fashion etc overprices for zero benefit.

Well i am certainly not paying £460 for a Mobo thats for sure, i have started to look at what are the best options in the £200 - £250 range or i might just skip this CPU / Mobo generation and keep the i5-8600K for another couple of years

 

[dave28]

Very good B550 boards can be gotten for sub £150 and not much more gives one of the best overall X570 boards.
(whole lot of X570 boards have crappy failure timer chipset cooler design)

MSI MAG X570 Tomahawk WiFi (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 ATX Motherboard= £179.99

Yes that one looks good actually

 

[dave28]

Well, well...
The cheapest one that you can buy today is only 50 bucks.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte B450M-DS3H AMD B450 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £49.99

Total: £59.89 (includes shipping: £9.90)
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For sure, they are trolling us. Motherboards for as low as 50 and graphics cards with mediocre performance for 500.

Yes the budget segment seems to have remained mostly unchanged, which is great if your in the market for budget parts.

The high end mobos that were £165 7 years ago and now £460 is more the thing that grinds my gears

 

[dave28]

Probably because budget buyers are more savvy and spend time researching what boards are available for the best price that will do what they need whereas high end buyers care less about VFM and just spend more because they think more must be better so it's no wonder these manufacturers are rubbing their hands with glee.

Or they just buy any Mobo that works, dont care what a mobo can do because they are not interested in them and are likely not a PC building enthusiast. They probably have a cheap case, PSU, Keyboard and mouse to go with it i would imagine.

 

[dave28]

Leaving this thread now, thanks for the replies