MSI CEO: AMD Plans to Stop Being the Value Alternative, X570 Motherboards to be Expensive

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The Aorus Pro is $250.

This really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. PCIe 4.0 requires higher PCB quality (likely through more layers) than 3.0 to ensure signal integrity, as well as redrivers driving up the BOM. Same goes for RAM traces if motherboard makers want to compete in the >4000MT/s RAM space. Then there's the cost of a large-die chipset that includes a PCIe 4.0 switch. X570 will be more expensive than previous AM4 X*70 series across the board - and that's fine, as it brings a lot to the table.

Hopefully when B550 launches it's a selectively stripped-down option that allows for cheaper boards - ideally maintaining rough feature parity but moving down to a PCIe 3.0 switch - even with less lanes that would still be useful, and a lot cheaper to produce. You'd still get PCIe 4.0 through the PCIe_x16_0 slot and the first m.2 slot (unless motherboard makers screw up the traces entirely), but cut pretty much every other element driving up prices of X570 boards.

Thanks for the link/price. Y, the board is really nice, but any motherboard more than 200 is definitely not a thing would jump into (been there, done that 10~15 years ago). I agree that it's justified by the extra engineering behind it, but major PCI-E 4.0's value will not be justified for a bunch of years (particularly considering the "reasonable price" factor of those uber fast SSDs).

If that's the compromise for the B550 ones (1 slot of each), then I'll be more than perfectly fine with it.

 

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What's wrong with MSI as of late? No, Seriously... Did AMD pee on your cereal?

I don't remember AMD sell/sold any MB....

MSI or any MB MFGs for that matters... I'll buy them around $200 ranges, no problem..... but for five, six ... $700... you can kissed my you know where!

Here is a cookie >> MSI.