B550 Mobo Prices Confirmed To Be HIgher Than B450

[Marzipan]

AMD B550 Motherboards On the Horizon, unofficial prices indicate higher price levels

I've been mentioning that the motherboard makers as of a year or two ago have started to really increase mobo prices. A new list of prices for AMDs B550 series has been spotted, and even B550 is gett...

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a lot more expensive I already noticed this with the new Asus CSM on the B550; it's literally $100 higher in price. >.<

 

[Entz]

Notice that, lots are higher than X570. At least MSI is doing "Steam" rebates but

 

[Marzipan]

I wonder how much of that is a cash grab vs. increased costs due to COVID 19 effects.

 

[draemn]

I'm a little sad... was looking forward to grabbing B550 over X570 with the though that the they would be somewhere between B450 and X570 price wise, even if you miss out on some of the "extras" that many X570 boards come with. I just want something that over-clocks well and has the connectors I need

 

[Sagath]

Seems really dumb to overlap X570 pricing.

Glad I just picked up a B450 for a family build. They're hard to find in stock as is due to COVID, this will only drive the market harder towards no stock since its the entry level pricepoint.

 

[Marzipan]

Seems really dumb to overlap X570 pricing.

Glad I just picked up a B450 for a family build. They're hard to find in stock as is due to COVID, this will only drive the market harder towards no stock since its the entry level pricepoint.

yeh, they B450's are rare as hens teeth now. dunno if they've gone EoL because of the B550 or what. having such high priced boards for mid-range chipset is going to hurt AMD sales. I hope this doesn't screw up their momentum.

 

[chrisk]

Ugh. Was waiting to save some money on a mobo as I'm just using one video card and nvme slot so the b550 seemed like a good fit. Been so hard finding stock of anything.

 

[Marzipan]

well, B550's and the new Ryzen 3 CPU's are supposed to go live today. not sure about the XT's as they were announced after the Ryzen 3s were.

edit - shameless plug, FrontierPC has a few ASUS Prime B550M-A/CSM in stock...3 for $165.00.

 

[draemn]

A520 Motherboards
Supplementary to today’s announcement on processors is a few words on a new chipset from AMD. The new A520 chipset is designed to be the budget option below B550, and will be set to replace A320 in this market, with a focus on supporting the Ryzen 3000 CPUs and newer.

Specifications on A520 are going to be announced at a later date, with a full launch from board partners due in August. We suspect that A520 will mirror A320, probably with the same PCIe 2.0 support from the chipset to keep costs and power down. More information as it comes.

 

[moocow]

I really wonder what plays into the pricing overlay between the B550 and X570. Are they releasing the premium B550 boards first? Given the cost of B550 and delay of Zen 3, I will probably end up stuffing a Zen 3 in my X470 and get an A520 and a GT710 PCI-E 1x GPU and migrate my 1600AF off as the new server.