Review Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Pro Review: Mid-Range, Full-Featured

[jtcmedia]

A 35 week lead time from the time the order is placed does not mean that many of these manufacturers did not place orders for a supply chips to build product with 25-35 weeks ago and those chips would be arriving be much sooner and more ddr5 could be hitting the shelves very soon .

That does make sense.

Also with only Alder Lake builds using the ddr5 and even many Alder Lake builders also are opting for ddr4 memory instead of ddr5 that should help limit the demand and perhaps more ddr5 will be seeing the shelves soon.

I say that hopefully as I sit here with an Alder Lake cpu and a ddr5 mb waiting to find the ddr5 memory for the build! lol!

You are kind of handcuffed by the models motherboard manufacturers have. Only their low-end or mid-tier motherboards have versions that accept DDR4. If you want a top tier motherboard, it has to be DDR5. Since most early adopters are those who want top tier motherboards, I am not sure there will be a limit on demand.
I spoke with a computer retailer yesterday and he said DDR5 won't be available for another year. Even if some do trickle out next month, you can bet scalpers will jump on it. I've seen 32GB kits sell for $1500 on Ebay. But good luck!

 

[BILL1957]

That does make sense.


You are kind of handcuffed by the models motherboard manufacturers have. Only their low-end or mid-tier motherboards have versions that accept DDR4. If you want a top tier motherboard, it has to be DDR5. Since most early adopters are those who want top tier motherboards, I am not sure there will be a limit on demand.
I spoke with a computer retailer yesterday and he said DDR5 won't be available for another year. Even if some do trickle out next month, you can bet scalpers will jump on it. I've seen 32GB kits sell for $1500 on Ebay. But good luck!

You could well be right, I have until a late Jan return window on the DDR5 mb I bought because of the holiday shopping season, it may be a possibility I could return the ddr5 board and buy a ddr4 board if I have seen no ddr5 at all surfacing on normal sites for sale by that time.

I want the ddr5 and actually have the board I want but it may just not work out exactly like I would prefer.

 

[Why_Me]

That does make sense.


You are kind of handcuffed by the models motherboard manufacturers have. Only their low-end or mid-tier motherboards have versions that accept DDR4. If you want a top tier motherboard, it has to be DDR5. Since most early adopters are those who want top tier motherboards, I am not sure there will be a limit on demand.
I spoke with a computer retailer yesterday and he said DDR5 won't be available for another year. Even if some do trickle out next month, you can bet scalpers will jump on it. I've seen 32GB kits sell for $1500 on Ebay. But good luck!

https://www.newegg.com/asus-rog-strix-z690-a-gaming-wifi-d4/p/N82E16813119505
ASUS ROG Strix Z690-A Gaming WiFi D4 LGA $437.48

ROG STRIX Z690-A GAMING WIFI D4 | Gaming motherboards｜ROG - Republic of Gamers｜ROG Global

ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-A GAMING WIFI Intel LGA 1700 ATX motherboard, OptiMem III, PCIe 5.0, 16+1 power stages, WiFi 6, Intel® 2.5 Gb Ethernet, four M.2 slots, USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 USB Type-C®, SATA and Aura Sync

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https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-aorus-z690-aero-g-ddr4/p/N82E16813145346
GIGABYTE Z690 AERO G DDR4 $289.99

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z690-AERO-G-DDR4-rev-10#kf


https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813162028
ASRock Z690 EXTREME DDR4 $269.99

https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z690 Extreme/index.asp

 

[tamalero]

Most good mid range boards have been floating around the $300 mark for a while.
You do have to remember these boards are all premium z690 chipset boards.

The cheaper lesser chipset boards will not release until q1 2022.

These boards seem to be up about 40-50 dollars over previous boards.
Whether that is because of the new tech or for months we have been hearing about copper prices and raw material prices going up by double digit increases and so has the cost of shipping so these price increases may partly be because of that as well.

I bought one of these boards and it is equivalent to the boards I usually buy for my builds and still in roughly the same $300 give or take price range as well.

Thats exactly what I was going to say.
Z690 is supposed to be top of the line, so in comparison to all Z690 chips, this motherboard is "mid range" at 300$.
There are ones going for 800$ for gods sake!