C'mon, even with the pandemic and all that, these prices are crazy.
I have the impression that 30yr-old YouTube "kids" (They call themselves streamers) have also contributed with their stupid hype, 32 core for 1% fps gain and such, so they will pay anything just to get it and companies know that.
They have rised prices 200%, no problem, everything was sold in minutes either for gaming or mining.
I still have my Gigabyte GA-Z77x-UD5H + 3770K.
The 3770K was 300eur back in the day, so let's say 370eur for the 12700K is ok-ish.
It was just in time, as AMD also started to fly high when the 5800 came out (580eur wtf)
But intel mobos are out of control... Let's compare what you had then vs what you get now:
Cost: 150eur in 2012.
- Wifi
- Dual BIOS
- Led diagnostic display
- In-board power/reset/CMOS switches
- Plenty of cooling, heatpipe for chipset and vrm.
- Dual Gbit Ethernet
- 10+ SATAs
- Lots, lots of protection ICs.
Something similar now costs 500+ eur.
For the same cost, you get this sh** mobo, so naked and pathetic that they had to paint It so it looked better:
- Nothing of the above.
- Like a 2005 cheap asrock with some paint.
- Cheapo+++ heatsinks
- Not even a 5-cent CMOS reset switch!
Crappy H610 mobo starts at 90eur!
Long live to my 3770K, I'm not taking this train!
I have the impression that 30yr-old YouTube "kids" (They call themselves streamers) have also contributed with their stupid hype, 32 core for 1% fps gain and such, so they will pay anything just to get it and companies know that.
They have rised prices 200%, no problem, everything was sold in minutes either for gaming or mining.
I still have my Gigabyte GA-Z77x-UD5H + 3770K.
The 3770K was 300eur back in the day, so let's say 370eur for the 12700K is ok-ish.
It was just in time, as AMD also started to fly high when the 5800 came out (580eur wtf)
But intel mobos are out of control... Let's compare what you had then vs what you get now:
Cost: 150eur in 2012.
- Wifi
- Dual BIOS
- Led diagnostic display
- In-board power/reset/CMOS switches
- Plenty of cooling, heatpipe for chipset and vrm.
- Dual Gbit Ethernet
- 10+ SATAs
- Lots, lots of protection ICs.
Something similar now costs 500+ eur.
For the same cost, you get this sh** mobo, so naked and pathetic that they had to paint It so it looked better:
- Nothing of the above.
- Like a 2005 cheap asrock with some paint.
- Cheapo+++ heatsinks
- Not even a 5-cent CMOS reset switch!
Crappy H610 mobo starts at 90eur!
Long live to my 3770K, I'm not taking this train!
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