That last few generations has seen crazy price increases.When did boards get so expensive? I remember B85 boards were like $60 to $80 back in the Haswell days the last time I bought a cpu. Now $140 for dinky little micro-ATX B660 boards is a deal?
When did boards get so expensive? I remember B85 boards were like $60 to $80 back in the Haswell days the last time I bought a cpu. Now $140 for dinky little micro-ATX B660 boards is a deal?
For me, $200 is the most I will pay for a motherboard. I just can't concisely pay more for a motherboard over a CPU (regardless of how much RGB is thrown on it to make it look oh-so-pretty.
That last few generations has seen crazy price increases.
I was shocked at how expensive Asrock Taichi motherboards have become, so I looked at my Newegg history to see what I paid for my Z270 Taichi in 2017. It was $169.99
Now the Z590 Taichi is $490 and the Z690 Taichi is an eye-watering $590. I guess if people are willing to pay those kind of prices for a mid-range motherboard, why wouldn't the manufacturers jack all their prices up to become a lot more profitable in that product segment?
For me, $200 is the most I will pay for a motherboard. I just can't consciously pay more for a motherboard over a CPU (regardless of how much RGB is thrown on it to make it look oh-so-pretty.
Lulz! Haswell came out almost 9 yrs ago. The board Larry linked is $140 with dual display ports, 2.5GbE LAN, WiFi 6 802.11ax, and XMP support. Throw that $100 i3 in it and you have a great gamer, for considerably less than a Haswell i7 alone, used to cost bitd. Bang for buck would be even better, if not for tariffs, raw material and transport costs skyrocketing, and demand for microprocessors being extremely high.When did boards get so expensive? I remember B85 boards were like $60 to $80 back in the Haswell days the last time I bought a cpu. Now $140 for dinky little micro-ATX B660 boards is a deal?
Lulz! Haswell came out almost 9 yrs ago. The board Larry linked is $140 with dual display ports, 2.5GbE LAN, WiFi 6 802.11ax, and XMP support. Throw that $100 i3 in it and you have a great gamer, for considerably less than a Haswell i7 alone, used to cost bitd. Bang for buck would be even better, if not for tariffs, raw material and transport costs skyrocketing, and demand for microprocessors being extremely high.
Maybe you should stop talking about the boards too, seeing as this is a hot deals thread for 12th gen CPUs.Dual display port on the board is useless to a gamer and I got XMP support on the Z97S SLI Krait Edition board I paid $100 for (really $85 after rebate). If we're going to shoehorn cpus into this discussion how about gpus too if we're going to talk about a great gamer system? Or maybe we can just stick to talking about boards doubling in price in the last few years? So is Intel offsetting their price increases onto the chipset instead of the cpus that bear their name while the boards bear the names of Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, etc so it doesn't make them look bad?
Maybe you should stop talking about the boards too, seeing as this is a hot deals thread for 12th gen CPUs.
Fair point.It's still worth noting that even @ $260 for board and CPU it's about that for a 5600G alone @ Microcenter, which is a top-tier source for these things. It's a real deal for those looking to stretch their dollars.
CPUs are useless without boards, but for all the talk here I paid $320 for an x79 board @ Microcenter back in the day and that was pretty entry level. Todays boards are build more like that one was.
And I still see older boards for crazy cheap from time to time (B560, B450) but those won't run an Alder Lake CPU.
Let's just realize that even a lowly board for 12th gen desktop parts has to be able to support some sturdy power delivery because you could put a 12900K in there and fire up a power virus. Along with all the other insanity going on in the world the basic B660 boards can probably deliver a ton more power than your value boards of yesterday. That costs something.
Fair point.
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MSI B660 Tomahawk Wifi ATX DDR4 $189.99
The prices are getting silly.....hope they come down in months ahead...Shared that with someone for a build yesterday. They didn’t take me up on it, which was a bummer.
That said, if you don’t need wifi that is getting awful close to Z690 territory and if you can get the big boy chipset I would, if only because they are likely built a smidge better.
Wrong link? That's a used X470 mobo from a not-well-known seller on ebay.$89 shipped and there is 4 of them at the time of reply.