The cost of new generation ITX motherboards

JollyJamma · 7 Oct 2022 at 09:00

...makes me want to cry

More than double the price.

My basket at OcUK:

1 x Asus ROG Strix Z690-I Gaming WIFI - Intel Z690 LGA 1700 DDR5 Mini-ITX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6H9-AS) = £399.98
1 x MSI MPG Z790I Edge WIFI (LGA 1700) DDR5 Mini ITX Motherboard (SKU: MB-36X-MS) = £410.00
1 x Asus ROG Strix Z790-I Gaming WIFI (LGA 1700) DDR5 Mini ITX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6JL-AS) = £484.99
1 x Asus ROG Strix X670E-I Gaming WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 Mini ITX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6J8-AS) = £449.99
1 x Gigabyte B660I AORUS PRO - Intel B660 DDR4 Mini-ITX Motherboard (SKU: MB-5AV-GI) = £209.98
1 x Asus ROG Strix B660-I Gaming WIFI - Intel Z690 DDR5 Mini-ITX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6HM-AS) = £260.00

Total: £2,226.64 (includes delivery: £11.70)

JollyJamma · 20 Oct 2022 at 08:37

hyperst said:
I have always wondered for the last twenty years why are mother boards so cheap, lets be honest thats a lot of components on any board, we had it good for 2 decades lol

Well I know that AMD wasn't taken as seriously by the 3rd party manufacturers as AM5 is.

Just look at how cheap B450 motherboards were. You could easily run a 5950X on them too. AM4 was a great success story for AMD so AM5 has more backing and manufacturers are taking it more seriously as they realise that AMD is back to winning ways.

I am an AMD fanboy at heart but I can't get behind the pricing and I know that they are just another company that will happily take your money.

The fact that Intel is now the value option is mind blowing. I would happily get a 13700F+ITX B660 motherboard if my 5700X died tomorrow.

JollyJamma · 23 Oct 2022 at 14:56

Jay85 said:
Im not justifying the price but when you look at the Asus Strix Z690-i board with its multi stacked pcb for M.2 drives, its pretty mindblowing the amount of design that must have gone into that to get it work.

Yes but it's £400. It should do the dishes on top of being a motherboard at that price.

JollyJamma · 23 Jan 2023 at 10:44

Tinders said:
Essentially when manufacturers see that sheep will continue to pay 1k plus for a not even top of the range phone, then of course the rest of the electronics world will follow! It’s utter madness.

It’s not so much phones that are the issue here but Nvidia and graphics cards.

Even AMD has upped their pricing because they can.

Motherboard manufacturers are following suit with some stupidly expensive high end boards.