Amazon US Lists Pair of ASUS Z790 Motherboards with Pricing

[Chaitanya]

On a side note, just noticed B&H also has listed Asus B650 boards and here are their pricing:

 

[Pumper]

$250 boards that don't even have integrated IO shields.
What a time to be alive.

 

[Hugis]

4 listed here in Spain, seem v expensive

 

[Sombreuil]

 

[maxfly]

It's interesting to see the board layouts io capabilities etc but there's no way I would early adopt either. These prices are beyond stupid.

 

[Darksword]

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007627 601394305 601409372 <---- Z790 boards listed on Newegg.

You have to spend a minimum of $479.99 to get a Z790 board with a friggin' Post Code.

 

[ARF]

The AMD boards are WAY worse.

For the entry models, the AM4 A520 boards are better and cheaper.

AMD A520 AMD Motherboards | Newegg.com

LGA 1700,Intel Q670,Intel H670,Intel B660,Intel H610 Intel Motherboards | Newegg.com

 

[pressing on]

Yes, cheaper by $15 minus $2.40 with the promo code but better depends on what you're looking for. Like all other Intel 600 series Alder Lake boards the ASRock motherboard pictured already has a Raptor Lake BIOS update available. So, for the extra $15 you will have a free choice of any Alder Lake or Raptor Lake CPU. For a board like this this the current cheapest budget choice is the $95 Alder Lake i3 12100F. For the A520 you are looking at the Ryzen 5 4500 at $122 or the Ryzen 5 5500 at $134. All prices as at Newegg at the time of this post, inclusive of promo discounts.

Gamers Nexus did a 12100F vs 5500 comparison, look it up. It's not good for the AMD chip.

 

[mahirzukic2]

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007627 601394305 601409372 <---- Z790 boards listed on Newegg.

They seem much cheaper than 670 boards. 50 - 60 or even 80$ cheaper.
That's crazy.

For the entry models, the AM4 A520 boards are better and cheaper.

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AMD A520 AMD Motherboards | Newegg.com

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LGA 1700,Intel Q670,Intel H670,Intel B660,Intel H610 Intel Motherboards | Newegg.com

Boards (new Intel's and AMD's) need to come down to 70 - 100$ starting price from the current 200$ for people to start buying them.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

For the entry models, the AM4 A520 boards are better and cheaper.

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AMD A520 AMD Motherboards | Newegg.com

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LGA 1700,Intel Q670,Intel H670,Intel B660,Intel H610 Intel Motherboards | Newegg.com

The A620 boards will be the MVP this time around, since hopefully they will have PCIe 4.0.

 

[Why_Me]

The A620 boards will be the MVP this time around, since hopefully they will have PCIe 4.0.

Barebones by the looks of it.

https://www.amd.com/en/chipsets/a520

 

[Darksword]

The A620 boards will be the MVP this time around, since hopefully they will have PCIe 4.0.

It's a sad state of affairs if A620 boards are the ones we have to look forward to.

Might as well just stick with AM4.

 

[ARF]

Might as well just stick with AM4.

100%.

Yes, cheaper by $15 minus $2.40 with the promo code but better depends on what you're looking for. Like all other Intel 600 series Alder Lake boards the ASRock motherboard pictured already has a Raptor Lake BIOS update available. So, for the extra $15 you will have a free choice of any Alder Lake or Raptor Lake CPU. For a board like this this the current cheapest budget choice is the $95 Alder Lake i3 12100F. For the A520 you are looking at the Ryzen 5 4500 at $122 or the Ryzen 5 5500 at $134. All prices as at Newegg at the time of this post, inclusive of promo discounts.

Gamers Nexus did a 12100F vs 5500 comparison, look it up. It's not good for the AMD chip.

It's not the boards' fault that the 12100F performs better than a 5500. It's AMD faulty strategy to be absent in the lower-end tiers.

Also, I doubt that the target audience of these boards actually cares about upgrading to 13th gen. Of course, here the primary target is people who give less money.

 

[maxfly]

It's a sad state of affairs if A620 boards are the ones we have to look forward to.

Might as well just stick with AM4.

If prices don't get a whole lot more reasonable for both teams, I believe that's going to be the way alot of people end up going.

 

[Why_Me]

For the entry models, the AM4 A520 boards are better and cheaper.

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AMD A520 AMD Motherboards | Newegg.com

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LGA 1700,Intel Q670,Intel H670,Intel B660,Intel H610 Intel Motherboards | Newegg.com

I've never met nor heard of anyone who's purchased a Maxsun board and Asrock is a low budget brand preferred by AMD peeps. btw the H610 boards are what you see in the likes of a $500 HP.

 

[ARF]

If prices don't get a whole lot more reasonable for both teams, I believe that's going to be the way alot of people end up going.

PCIe 5.0 is the deal breaker. It simply requires more sophisticated PCBs, repeaters, more layers, add to that more metal for the cooling, more phases for the power delivery circuitry, and the picture becomes extremely dull.
AM5 is simply placed as an extremely premium platform and is a 100% no-go as of now.

 

[RedBear]

PCIe 5.0 is the deal breaker.

I'm not really sure about that, take this B650 motherboard for instance, it's priced at $200 and it appears to have no PCIe Gen 5 capability whatsoever EDIT: only PCIe Gen 5 for the M2 slot. The same is true for several other motherboards at this price range, which either completely lack PCIe Gen 5 capability or are limited to the first M2 slot only.

 

[maxfly]

I'm not really sure about that, take this B650 motherboard for instance, it's priced at $200 and it appears to have no PCIe Gen 5 capability whatsoever EDIT: only PCIe Gen 5 for the M2 slot. The same is true for several other motherboards at this price range, which either completely lack PCIe Gen 5 capability or are limited to the first M2 slot only.

I think the problem is mb manufacturers think its a huge selling point when in fact it isn't. The result being they've crammed the high end boards full of gen5 options that most informed users know they wont use fully or at all (anytime soon at least) but have to pay for to get the other high end features they do want. Eventually there will be a need but they are exaggerating its usefulness to the point of potentially ruining the launch.

 

[Blaylock]

There are plenty of Goobers out there who don't check reviews and simply believe that the highest-priced product means the best product. Sadly they will be supporting this nonsense.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Barebones by the looks of it.

https://www.amd.com/en/chipsets/a520

That's A520, not a620

And frankly, the a520 offers just about everything a typical user needs. Your average user has a GPU. Sound is external now. Maybe 1 M.2 SSD and a single sata SSD. dual GPU is dead. 5.25" drives are mostly dead. So long as it has lots of USB ports (and 13 is more then you will likely use) its fine. Things like the VRM are chipset agnostic.