Wednesday, September 7th 2022
MSI Reveals its Official Pricing for its X670 Motherboards and They're Not Affordable
MSI has put up the pricing of its upcoming X670E and X670 motherboards on its website and it's already causing a stir online, as MSI seems to have priced itself out of the market. Starting at the bottom of the product stack, where the Pro X670-P WiFi sits at US$289.99, which should be compared to the X570-A Pro (without WiFi) which retails for around $110. Admittedly we don't know the exact pricing of MSI's competitors at this point in time, but this seems like a very steep price for a lower-end board in the category. However, things don't improve, as the MPG X670E Carbon WiFi comes in at US$479.99, or about $200 more than its X570S counterpart is currently selling for. This is also at least $70 more than what we expect Gigabyte's X670E Aorus Master to sell at.
Next step up is the MEG X670E ACE which comes in at a steep $699.99, which is at least $100 more than what Gigabyte's X670E Aorus Xtreme is expected to sell for and around twice the current retail price of the MEG X570 ACE Gaming. Finally, MSI is asking for a whopping US$1,299.99 for the MEG X670E Godlike, a price we can't see many being willing to pay for what appears to be a fairly unexciting flagship board, at least compared to what we've seen from ASUS. It's obviously far from the first $1,000 plus board, but despite a fairly feature packed bundle, this board is simply bad value for money no matter how you look at it. Hopefully MSI will adjust their pricing based on the comments that are already posted around the internet, but we're going to have to wait until the official retail date to see if these boards will come down in price or not.
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Next step up is the MEG X670E ACE which comes in at a steep $699.99, which is at least $100 more than what Gigabyte's X670E Aorus Xtreme is expected to sell for and around twice the current retail price of the MEG X570 ACE Gaming. Finally, MSI is asking for a whopping US$1,299.99 for the MEG X670E Godlike, a price we can't see many being willing to pay for what appears to be a fairly unexciting flagship board, at least compared to what we've seen from ASUS. It's obviously far from the first $1,000 plus board, but despite a fairly feature packed bundle, this board is simply bad value for money no matter how you look at it. Hopefully MSI will adjust their pricing based on the comments that are already posted around the internet, but we're going to have to wait until the official retail date to see if these boards will come down in price or not.
73 Comments on MSI Reveals its Official Pricing for its X670 Motherboards and They're Not Affordable
Of those 4 I'd go for the Carbon - which in NZ would cost about NZ$950-$960. That is what Current gen "Godlike" boards cost, and that's what a Mid-Tier board now costs... WTF!
I've stated that THIS IS HOW THEY ARE GOING TO MAKE THEIR MONEY OFF IF THEIR MOTHERBOARD CHIPSET INSTEAD OF THE CPU.
When people STOP making Dr. Lisa Su the second coming of Christ is when THIS TYPE OF GOUGING STOPS FOR AMD.
This is why I updated as I did. I KNEW YOUR PRICE, PERFOMANCE, AND WATTAGE USAGE WERE ON CRACK.
I stand my comment(s) here as well as other sites. I have been vindicated by the research of the information found.
I will not buy this nonsense, because... WAIT TO YOU SEE THE COST OF THE "B" SERIES OF MOTHERBOARDS.
Price gouging by AMD. If Intel gives me a lesser price for equal performance/wattage I'll upgrade towards intel.
INCREDIBLY STUPID for these prices... at a time where we are in a recession, we are are also in a energy crisis globally.
Prices shown here are untenable, hopefully other mobo manufacturers bring lower prices.
numbers on the test bench. Too much power to drive the CPU & GPU nowadays. Too much heat produced. On top of that, I
don't even see any true PC games in the future. All my PC's, no matter how near Retro they are, are plenty fast enough. Motherboards
that need this great amount of adjustments to control and reduce the power and heat involved. What's the point?
Probably should ignore naming though to me it looks like the Ace is replacing the old Godlike in the X570 lineup and the Carbon is replacing the old Ace.... Both being overpriced still imo.
They wouldn't produce if it doesn't sell. Period.
Not really surprising
Last somewhat affordable mother boards were z490
After that they all got steadily stupid priced.
If they all do this AMD is screwed, people will flee to Intel en masse, hell even I will get Raptor Lake unless Z790 is also stupidly priced too.
That way you don't have spammy signatures, turning pages into a wall of ePeen advertisements like on the other forums.
Another point to consider is the socket longevity. Z690 will support up to Raptor Lake, before the curtain comes down on it. So while you pay less for the Z690 board, you will need to buy a brand new board if you want to upgrade. If you are one that don’t upgrade your com regularly, then this is a none issue. But I suspect that motherboard makers are charging more for AMD boards with the backward compatibility being one of the main driver. Like someone bought a X470/ B450 board a few years back and subsequently upgrade to a Zen 3 processor, and the likes of MSI won’t make a single extra cent in this case.