A European retailer lists several Asus X670E-based motherboards for AMD’s Zen 4-based desktop processors. The new AM5 platform is available for pre-order and will ship soon, but its price point will hardly please mainstream enthusiasts.
When AMD and its partners demonstrated the first AMD X670 and X670E based mainboards earlier this month, they said the X670E was a brand new platform for hardcore enthusiasts with lots of new features and various knobs for tuning. Platforms like this are usually expensive, but it looks like early adopters of AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 7000 series ‘Raphael’ CPUs will have to pay unprecedented amounts for their motherboards. IPC-Computer.de (discovered by @momomo_us).
The base Asus Prime X670-P mainboard costs €483 ($412 excluding VAT), while the “entry level” Asus ROG Strix X670E-A Gaming Wi-Fi mainboard costs €783 (€669 excluding VAT). dollar) is set. The top-end Asus Crosshair X670E Extreme, on the other hand, is considerably more expensive at €1475 ($1260 before VAT).
AMD’s X670E platform for enthusiast-grade desktop PCs features support for processors with up to 16 Zen 4 cores, dual-channel DDR5 memory, a PCIe 5.0 interface, and up to 14 USB ports (including some USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 ports and USB-C), Wi-Fi 6E support on high-end motherboards. Some AM5 mainboards also offer an M.2-25110 slot for future SSDs, 2.5GbE or 10GbE connectivity, and USB 4 connectors.
The majority of AMD X670E-based motherboards are aimed at enthusiasts planning to overclock their processors, so they have very sophisticated voltage regulation modules that can deliver hundreds of watts to your CPU to maximize your overclocking potential. provide. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that such a platform would be fairly expensive, but $1260 seems too high even by enthusiast level standards. Hardware tends to be priced particularly high. At over $1000 for the motherboard alone, it’s too much for most people, but there will inevitably be some buyers.
