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What is going to stop you from using it?I do not count one penny is saying below 600 and the reason for the price cut is you won’t be able to use the damn thing for more than a year
Why would we short change others with solid advice because your apparently jaded?DDR 5 Ram. And don't tell people to get those cheap ass DDR 4 Main boards either.
The vast majority of them are probably fine. However, people who like to buy high end motherboards for whatever the reason, will not be satisfied by the DDR4 boards which are often barely mid-range. The DDR5 boards are the ones with 10GbE NICs, Thunderbolt support, have more M.2 slots and things like that.DDR4 boards are fine to use. As far as benchmarks go DDR5 isn't that big of if any difference and with the shortage and price of DDR5 it only makes DDR4 boards the most logical way to go at the moment.
How is Intel fucking up? One store that most people don't have access too dropping the price. They still going for $620 on NE and amazon. MC is using it to get people in the store and hoping they for them to build entire systems there. 12900k Is a pretty damn good CPU.Lol, Intel just keeps fucking up. Karma?
Microcenter is virtually always cheaper than anyone else on CPU's.How is Intel fucking up? One store that most people don't have access too dropping the price. They still going for $620 on NE and amazon. MC is using it to get people in the store and hoping they for them to build entire systems there. 12900k Is a pretty damn good CPU.
Agreed, and eventually most of us will get there, but until DDR5 becomes more readily available as mentioned numerous times we have to be patient. I actually had a chance in the Newegg shuffle to get an Aorus DDR5 board and Kingston DDR5 but passed.The vast majority of them are probably fine. However, people who like to buy high end motherboards for whatever the reason, will not be satisfied by the DDR4 boards which are often barely mid-range. The DDR5 boards are the ones with 10GbE NICs, Thunderbolt support, have more M.2 slots and things like that.
i love this price war.
bestbuy is pricematching these, if you're lucky
Don't blame you. Those combo prices are ridiculous for 32GB of DDR5.Agreed, and eventually most of us will get there, but until DDR5 becomes more readily available as mentioned numerous times we have to be patient. I actually had a chance in the Newegg shuffle to get an Aorus DDR5 board and Kingston DDR5 but passed.
DDR5 motherboards are out of control. Just three years ago, $750 would have been unthinkable for a mainstream segment board. Now, that's the mid-range of the highest end motherboards. A s I've been looking for DDR5, I've seen the price shoot through the roof at retailers, even if the memory itself is out of stock. The prices on eBay are actually coming down as the initial wave of people willing to overpay probably have their RAM or sanity has kicked in. But the price for some kits is upwards of $750 or more at Newegg. Microcenter has increased its prices on DDR5 $100 this week. So now the good kits are all $430-$500 there but not in stock. Best Buy is the only major retailer that's not jacking prices.Don't blame you. Those combo prices are ridiculous for 32GB of DDR5.
The combo prices have come down quite a bit now it seems. Just couldn't justify getting a DDR5 motherboard and ram when I just got my setup complete and it's doing fine.Don't blame you. Those combo prices are ridiculous for 32GB of DDR5.
Agreed. I didn't blink so much with an $800 board for my Threadripper - that's supposed to be a 3-5 year workstation. But I wasn't going to spend that on a consumer-level gaming board (did $350 for a Z490 Aorus Master instead). But now? That's bloody mid-range, which is @#$@ insane. I can sorta understand the Z690 Godlike price (especially with bundled ram), but the rest? $1000+ for a consumer board?!?DDR5 motherboards are out of control. Just three years ago, $750 would have been unthinkable for a mainstream segment board. Now, that's the mid-range of the highest end motherboards. A s I've been looking for DDR5, I've seen the price shoot through the roof at retailers, even if the memory itself is out of stock. The prices on eBay are actually coming down as the initial wave of people willing to overpay probably have their RAM or sanity has kicked in. But the price for some kits is upwards of $750 or more at Newegg. Microcenter has increased its prices on DDR5 $100 this week. So now the good kits are all $430-$500 there but not in stock. Best Buy is the only major retailer that's not jacking prices.
Well, boards like the GIGABYTE Z690 Aorus Xtreme and the ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Extreme do have expensive integrated features like 10GbE NICs and that sort of thing. In fact, the consumer market is almost pushing HEDT out of the market completely. Partly because Intel hasn't been able to compete there and also because Threadripper has priced itself out of the range HEDT used to occupy. Now its in that high end workstation market that used to straddle the HEDT and server markets price wise.Agreed. I didn't blink so much with an $800 board for my Threadripper - that's supposed to be a 3-5 year workstation. But I wasn't going to spend that on a consumer-level gaming board (did $350 for a Z490 Aorus Master instead). But now? That's bloody mid-range, which is @#$@ insane. I can sorta understand the Z690 Godlike price (especially with bundled ram), but the rest? $1000+ for a consumer board?!?
Sure, but you could get those before on some of the $600-700 boards too (my TR and x299 boards both have at least 1 10G port, and were in that 600-800 range less than a year ago). But those were HEDT boards; you expected some extra cost. You make a valid point that consumer is crossing over to HEDT land; and the number of sales, but damn - even getting a ~good~ mid-range board puts them into that 500+ range now it seems. Ah well.Well, boards like the GIGABYTE Z690 Aorus Xtreme and the ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Extreme do have expensive integrated features like 10GbE NICs and that sort of thing. In fact, the consumer market is almost pushing HEDT out of the market completely. Partly because Intel hasn't been able to compete there and also because Threadripper has priced itself out of the range HEDT used to occupy. Now its in that high end workstation market that used to straddle the HEDT and server markets price wise.
I'm not saying these boards are reasonably priced by any means. However, given shortages, given what's on them I can understand it to some extent. With core counts where they are at, there isn't much difference between ASUS X299 Prime Edition 30 and the Maximus Z690 Extreme in terms of manufacturing costs. If anything, the latter is more expensive and its price unfortunately reflects that. These boards are also artificially inflated because they are sold in much lower numbers.
Grabbed another ADL for my family member. Good guy Intel saving us from overpriced PC hardware.
BB will match any price even a Amazon listing.i love this price war.
bestbuy is pricematching these, if you're lucky