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Motherboard prices have increased pretty significantly. First comment on this hardforum post a entitled: AMD and Intel motherboard prices skyrocket past surging
by noobface 3y ago
Motherboard prices have increased pretty significantly. First comment on this hardforum post a entitled:
AMD and Intel motherboard prices skyrocket past surging inflation rates thanks to 35-40% ASP increases[1]:
"Motherboard prices is why I haven't upgraded my CPU. More important things going on right now."
[1]https://hardforum.com/threads/amd-and-intel-motherboard-prices-skyrocket-past-surging-inflation-rates-thanks-to-35-40-asp-increases.2026758/ https://hardforum.com/threads/amd-and-intel-motherboard-pric...
- treprinum 3y agoAM5 mobos are more expensive than Threadripper x399 mobos when they were new...
- kvemkon 3y agoHope AM5 is the last such an obsolete 2-channel memory platform. Was it 2004-2005 as we got 2-channel memory with single or first dual-core CPUs? Now we have 16 cores with... still 2-channel memory. Looking forward to 4-channel AM6 socket. Memory bound software like OpenFOAM saturates memory bandwidth already on 6-8 cores with 2-channel memory [1]. So actually we should have got 4-channel with first 16-cores CPUs long ago. [1] https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/hardware/198378-openfoam-benchmarks-various-hardware-23.html https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/hardware/198378-openfoam-b...
- mlyle 3y agoEh. I don't think it's that bad. Something is always the bottleneck. On these 2-channel modern CPU, it's usually the concurrency of software; sometimes the throughput of the CPU cores; and very occasionally memory bandwidth, that sounds like a reasonably balanced system which the right amount of resources committed to each area.
- galaxyLogic 3y ago> Something is always the bottleneck. Insightful thought.
- anticensor 3y ago> Looking forward to 4-channel AM6 socket. More like AM5r2, AM5 has a few ID pins reserved.