still much better board than Z790 Godlike or Maximus Z790 Extreme bug
Why buys these things? Is there any advantage in going from like, an already overpriced $500 motherboard to one that’s over twice the price?
This is a product class for people who left reason behind long ago.
Why buy sports cars?
I just did a Z790 upgrade, and I started with a Z790 Maximus (Around $500) which I had to RMA, threw in a cheaper Z790 Plus-Wifi (Around $200).
The major differences in the more expensive board were
- Substantially better io (more nvme, way more ports on the back, higher speed ports)
- Way cooler RGB (if that’s your think)
- Board niceties, I.e. Q Code display, Start/Launch button on the motherboard.
Is it worth $300 more? Probably not to most. I find the IO useful myself. Having things like the Q-Code display were useful when diagnosing the need for a RMA.
Tech bros and sisters with 6-figure salaries and an under-developed perspective on value, $1300 isn’t even half a puppy to these folk.
Everyone’s chasing brain damaged whale money. These aren’t for normal humans.
See with this one , Manufacturers get twice the amount of money. If you feel extra generous and wanna fund future development , then this is the motherboard.
I know there’s always some “price is no object” buyers, but it’s weird to me when the motherboard is more than twice the price of the most expensive CPU that can go into it.
Really, think of all the incredibly expensive R&D, the amazing lithography technology, and the clean room production needed for a CPU.
Then compare that with what goes into laying some traces, installing some pre-made voltage regulators and ICs on a motherboard and basically buying a BIOS and tweaking it, then selling that board for more than twice the price of the CPU. That’s absurd to me.
These boards are for dumb people. -buildzoid
Gigabyte’s software is such absolute trash. I try not to take a negative outlook on things as a general rule, but this is one area where I will make an exception. Those built-in display panels have always been useless due to terrible software and lack of customization, and it happens every generation. MSI’s Godlike series is the same.
Objectively excellent board. Objectively stupid features. Objectively irrational pricing.
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I admit I like the covered up look but not $1300 like maybe $400 at most on a good day lol.
I guess nzxt n7 boards exist.
Overpriced and disappointing is what basically sums up the entire PC hardware space these last few years.
Pc part prices are ridiculous.
Asrock has an 8 layer $250 4-dimm board that claims support for 8000MHz DDR5 (Z790 Riptide WiFi). Same gen5 nvme setup that steals lanes from the GPU. Same wifi7. Most people would consider you crazy for purchasing this board.
They can claim what they want but I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone hit 8000 stable on a 4 dimm board, most seem to top out around 6800-7200 and maybe 7600 on some of the newer boards
What would a $1300 motherboard have to have to not be overpriced?
Water-cooling. CPU, SSDs, VRMs, outputs for GPU. The whole thing.
Glad ASUS learned with their Z790 waterblock debacle to not partner with EK. Their newest Z790 waterblock board is not in collaboration with EK
96GB of soldered on lpddr5x 9000+ memory, validated to work from the factory, out of the box performance guaranteed, just like laptops do already.
soldered lpddr5x because that’s the only way to get it to work reliably.
cpu would need an lpddr5x controller for that
LPDDR5X can work at hight freq because it 16bit wide per channel
while regular is 32bit
Dual socket, 16 ram slots, 48 or more PCI lanes, 10Gbit Ethernet for a start.
The rest of the PC.
Come with an escort lol.
Its a fine price if it was a xeon or threadripper board.