Some price gouging going on for X370 motherboards right now.
Here is Amazon pricing a high end board for less than $ + VAT price.
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powerbrick
24 Feb 1711#1
would be even cheaper if they didn't plaster the bloody board in disco lights and garish shrouds and decals.
Nobull
25 Feb 173#41
Haha I think you misunderstood my comment. I was saying it's not pointless to have that amount of power. I think if the rumours are right Ryzen will be the most significant CPU launch in over a decade.
powerbrick
24 Feb 173#4
cheers fella.
it just grinds my gears how they have started adding all this tat that increases the price.
-RGB
-plastic shrouds everywhere
-reinforced RAM slots, why, how heavy is RAM, PCIE yes, RAM no.
Hu_Dor
25 Feb 173#26
What you call overkill others call 4k or triple screens. Buy what you want- as will everyone else.
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powerbrick
24 Feb 1711#1
would be even cheaper if they didn't plaster the bloody board in disco lights and garish shrouds and decals.
it just grinds my gears how they have started adding all this tat that increases the price.
-RGB
-plastic shrouds everywhere
-reinforced RAM slots, why, how heavy is RAM, PCIE yes, RAM no.
ShroomHeadToad
24 Feb 17#5
The X370 boards overkill for the vast majority, for enthusiasts, power users.
Unless you really need the extra features found on the X370, buy the cheaper B350 boards.
ghost101 to ShroomHeadToad
24 Feb 171#7
People buying the Ryzen 7 processors coming out right now for £320+ are enthisiasts and power users. B350 is a bad choice unless you need an mATX board.
powerbrick
24 Feb 17#6
what is the point of having video outputs on the boards? No iGPU on these new Ryzens is there?
ghost101 to powerbrick
24 Feb 17#8
There will be APUs released. May as well support them.
Only the very top end boards will skip video ports.
flukeskywalker to powerbrick
25 Feb 17#42
yes the ryzen apu due out soon
ShroomHeadToad
24 Feb 17#9
The £75 Asrock B350 board I linked above doesn't have the video ports.
powerbrick to ShroomHeadToad
24 Feb 17#13
doesn't have enough expansion ports for my needs :disappointed:
hopefully more boards will be announced in the coming weeks?
ShroomHeadToad
24 Feb 17#10
I'm gonna pair the R7 1700X with the best B350 board I can find under £100 since I don't need the extra graphics slots plus all the other extra features.
Currently running a i-74790K on a cheap MSI ECO H97M board (£35 amazon deal no kidding), yes it (H97M) doesn't allow overclocking, an extra 400MHz~ doesn't add much to the performance of a chip already running at 4.2GHz with all 4 cores active.
powerbrick
24 Feb 17#11
Oh it does :wink: My 4790K runs @4.8 24/7 on a SOC force board.
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Opening post
Here is Amazon pricing a high end board for less than $ + VAT price.
Top comments
it just grinds my gears how they have started adding all this tat that increases the price.
-RGB
-plastic shrouds everywhere
-reinforced RAM slots, why, how heavy is RAM, PCIE yes, RAM no.
All comments (77)
The K5 which is pretty much the same as the Gaming 5 above is also available for £144.43.
You only get 4+3 phase instead of 6+4 phase though.
Again way lower than anyone else.
ASRock AMD AM4 Ryzen AB350M Micro ATX £74.48
it just grinds my gears how they have started adding all this tat that increases the price.
-RGB
-plastic shrouds everywhere
-reinforced RAM slots, why, how heavy is RAM, PCIE yes, RAM no.
Unless you really need the extra features found on the X370, buy the cheaper B350 boards.
Only the very top end boards will skip video ports.
hopefully more boards will be announced in the coming weeks?
Currently running a i-74790K on a cheap MSI ECO H97M board (£35 amazon deal no kidding), yes it (H97M) doesn't allow overclocking, an extra 400MHz~ doesn't add much to the performance of a chip already running at 4.2GHz with all 4 cores active.