Gigabyte B650 AM5 Motherboard Joins the $125 Crowd

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In reality, how much power does AMD really have to force these companies to keep prices low? Gigabyte, Asus, etc aren't going to cut their profit margin, I dont think AMD has enough clout to force them to take consessions, so the only thing AMD could really do is cut their own profit margin....and I don't see that happening.....it's completely out of the realm of possibility, but it'd be an interesting idea of AMD could have a "reference" motherboard manufactured for each chipset tier to inject more competition and to act as an "anchor" with respect to prices...though we all know the other mobo manufacturers would have a fit.


Just out of curiosity, what are you basing that on? I'm seriously asking

I'm not sure why, but people seem to think that better, newer tech should not be more expensive than older, less capable tech.

Like... yeah these Ryzen 7000 DDR5 boards that were literally just released ARE more expensive than Ryzen 5000 DDR4 boards released 2 years ago.
I'm not sure what people think is going on, but better stuff tends to be more expensive.

 

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Techspot fellows did a roundup, the closest thing to this board (the DS3H) actually managed fine.

AMD B650 Motherboard Roundup: VRM Thermal Testing

For those wanting to jump on the AM5 platform while spending as little as possible, which affordable AMD B650 motherboards are the best? We'll be torture-testing eleven...

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Back of the PCB temps are not the same as VRM temps. Not sure why they are even doing that. Doesn't make sense.

 

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I'm not sure why, but people seem to think that better, newer tech should not be more expensive than older, less capable tech.

Like... yeah these Ryzen 7000 DDR5 boards that were literally just released ARE more expensive than Ryzen 5000 DDR4 boards released 2 years ago.
I'm not sure what people think is going on, but better stuff tends to be more expensive.

The problem is the way prices have scaled upwards without much of a reason. Ryzen "5000" boards - x570 and b650 - were (and still are!) more expensive than usual, and the situation is only getting worse. And if you're looking for any particular extra feature prepare to pay through the nose because there's nothing interesting in lower/mid range board (I know because I recently bought a new board and there was nothing that marginally fitted my needs without going around 250€ where 200€ used to be very solid grounds and strong feature sets.

 

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The problem is the way prices have scaled upwards without much of a reason. Ryzen "5000" boards - x570 and b650 - were (and still are!) more expensive than usual, and the situation is only getting worse. And if you're looking for any particular extra feature prepare to pay through the nose because there's nothing interesting in lower/mid range board (I know because I recently bought a new board and there was nothing that marginally fitted my needs without going around 250€ where 200€ used to be very solid grounds and strong feature sets.

AM4 prices went up due to the 5800X3D providing practically 95% of the gaming performance of a much more expensive, DDR5-only current generation platform, and dwindling supplies of the higher-end stuff as it's practically an EOL platform now. Sucks, but is what it is. I'd keep a keen eye on ROG Strix-E or -XE, Crosshair VIII, Aorus Master/Xtreme, AsRock Taichi boards etc. coming in good condition from owners who are upgrading, might be the time to snag a super high-end board for the long run, if not now, very soon

 

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AM4 prices went up due to the 5800X3D providing practically 95% of the gaming performance of a much more expensive, DDR5-only current generation platform, and dwindling supplies of the higher-end stuff as it's practically an EOL platform now. Sucks, but is what it is. I'd keep a keen eye on ROG Strix-E or -XE, Crosshair VIII, Aorus Master/Xtreme, AsRock Taichi boards etc. coming in good condition from owners who are upgrading, might be the time to snag a super high-end board for the long run, if not now, very soon

I disagree, I don't think AM4 went up, they just stayed as bad as they ever were, there was a small decrease with B550 but it was not enough to balance the scales. (when I said the situation is getting worse, I was referring to generation over generation).

X570 and B550 seem to have mostly skipped the lower part of the bathtub curve, kind of a perfect storm of pcie 4.0 being more expensive, pandemic supply shortage and now the end of the bathtub with retirement age high price. But it sucks as now we get another price hiked new platform and the manufacturers start to get into a sort of "price increase" mentality.

Hopefully the situation corrects with the current decrease in demand, I don't know how things went with previous similar cycles (as if anything in the past can be compared, maybe I don't know) but the market is pretty bad right now.