5th option on AM5. And since it arrives late and not much cheaper it will suffer the same lackluster sales on DIY market as previous A series boards. My guess is that OEM's will love it tho. Saving 25€ on one PC is small. But saving 25€ when building thousands of them is massive.
What we don't know, we don't know. Once released, we will see how DIY market reacts. It's a tough market in recent year, for all tiers of products. OEMs will certainly be happy, and anyone else who wants to jump on a cheaper AM5 platform will get another option. That's all to it.
And those consumers buying AM5 will care less about <11% price difference than AM4 buyers.
You don't know this. It is your assumption, a baseless assumption.
They are not choice-less now. There are already FOUR AM5 chipset versions to choose from plus several AM4 options.
I did not talk about lack of choices. Focus dude. I said: "Allow them to decide what is better for them instead". And please stop chopping my sentences and quoting me out of larger context of A620 board release. Silly.
I would be positively surprised if A620 ended up 50€ cheaper (or more).
Nobody also predicted that Microcenter would be offering 16GB and 32GB of DDR5 RAM for free in a bundle, yet they did it. Allow yourself to be surprised.
And that's useless if the CPU that is compatible with A620 costs between 110-190€ more than AM4 CPU (R3 1200 vs R7 7600 is 190 and R5 5600 vs R7 7600 is 110).
This was a response to my text about A620 being a bit beetr than B550. Again, you are not the one who is making choices for consumers. Some will want to save a bit on motherboard in order to buy AM5 CPU. I would do that, because in future I will also be able to make a simple drop-in upgrade. Leave those choices to consumers and stop making baseless judgements about what is "useless" and who for.
A person who cares about <50€ price difference in a motherboard will not buy DDR5 regardless.
Again, you don't know this. Any saving on any cheaper AM5 component makes this platform closer for some buyers. Your comments sound progressively arrongant. You sound as if you are Saruman who looks into a crystall ball and sees future choices of buyers.
7600X started from 350 and is now 239. 7600 that came later started from 260 and is now also 239. And these are the cheapest AM5 CPU's until AMD launches Zen 4 based APU's in Q4.
This is good. All components are slowly going down, as they should, which makes it more likely that more people will move onto the platform. A620 board will make this a tad easier too. $50 here, $30 there, and suddently the entry platforms becomes more approachable for those who do not want to buy AM4 or Intel.
Whether reductions are "not enough", well, again, allow consumers to decide this for themselves once they see what would be a total cost of A620 system for them. A620 boards will simply bring more choices to consider.