News AMD B850 motherboard pricing leaks at Amazon's overseas store — Gigabyte B850 boards listed between $240 and $308

[Admin]

Hardware leaker @momomo_us shares images for Gigabyte's lineup of B850 motherboards expected to come out in CES 2025.

AMD B850 motherboard pricing leaks at Amazon's overseas store — Gigabyte B850 boards listed between $240 and $308 : Read more

 

[TechieTwo]

With the Asrock X870 Steel Legend WiFi selling for $269. USD or less it seems like this might be a better deal for many people.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Just strikes me that nearly 300 for what should be a basic board that these are a bit overpriced imo. Starting to get where the board costs almost as much as the cpu. Glad Microcenter has bundle deals. I think my b650 will have to last the rest of the generation.

 

[Loadedaxe]

Hmmm, AMDs head is getting a little big.
Basic budget boards should not be over $150

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Agreed. I remember paying about 70-80 for my old AsRock b350 a few years back. I get amd is on top but they need to remember how they got there. Intel is a big company and if they start playing the game from behind like amd did for years they could be right back in.

 

[Notton]

I think y'all complaining about the prices should hold your horses.
That screenshot doesn't even tell us who the seller is. Is it Aorus/Gigabyte official? or a 3rd party?
Amazon 3rd party sellers have a habit of inflating the price before the item is actually launched.
If it's official, then you can go ahead and complain.

However, the real cheap boards aren't B850. That's the spot the B840 is supposed to fill, particularly in the mATX variety.

 

[TechieTwo]

While features on newer mobos do increase the cost to produce them, IMO mobos costing >$300. are exploitation by the mobo makers. They have done this with Intel as well as AMD boards. AMD does not tell the mobo makers what to charge. Part of the problem IMO is that mobo makers have decided to produce 10+ model mobos for each mobo series AM4/AM5. That means sales of a specific model mobo are lower resulting in a need to charge more than if there were say 5 models selling in higher volume. Individualization is nice but not at a significant cost increase.

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

As the article says, these boards are priced in Euros with sales tax included, so USA readers can deduct 17-27% from the given prices.

See https://www.eurofiscalis.com/en/vat-rates-in-ue/