Seems like a decent price for reasonably quality motherboard, though it's not the max version with 8 layers
MSI MAG B850 Tomahawk WiFi AM5 Motherboard $261.58 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU
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It will be hard to sell AM5 CPU and motherboard due to the expensive DDR5 RAM.

yep that explains why motherboard prices are droping hard.

MSI MAG B850 Tomahawk or GIGABYTE B850 Eagle WIFI7 ICE?

Go the Tomahawk. If you are after white i got the MSI b850 edge ti white.

+1 to the Tomahawk, they are legit good boards for the money.

MSI by a mile. More VRM phases 17 vs 12.

are you talking about this board? 17 VRM? looked up specs only got 14.

MSI
14 phases → CPU (Vcore)
2 phases → SoC (memory controller / iGPU)
1 phase → miscellaneous (aux power)
Versus Gigabyte
8 phases ) → CPU (Vcore
2 phases → SoC memory controller / iGPU
2 phases → miscellaneous (aux power)

Thanks.. very good price!

One of the best B850 on the market. Incredible price.
Sucks about the RAM and storage though.

Gunna buy some AM5 stuff when the prices can't get any lower then wait till RAM prices get cheap, just like eggs … production has been ramped up … then there's a glut because the demand from corps ends.

There won't be a memory glut because DRAM production capacity is limited and it shifted to products that are incompatible with consumer grade hardware

We'll see

I hope I'm wrong and you're right, FWIW

@boozed: Sorta stuff people said last RAM shortage, as usual the chips will be made & when the demand stops for server farms etc, they'll be whacked onto sticks for desktop or other similar uses & there'll be bunches of the stuff cheap!

@boozed: Both Google & openAI have developed compression algorithms that have meant they no longer need to purchase RAM … pretty sure everyone else will "Jump to this" asap & all that manufacturing capacity will need to go something else!

Now $229.10!!!

Argh that's low enough for me, starting the AM5 upgrade now I guess.

saw some better prices on fb marketplace for ram and motherboard new. seems people who bought cheap before are offloading

Thanks. Reordered at the new price

Packaging was non existant - one sheet of paper
Delivery guy dropped it and the cpu shield is off and think i have some bent pins. FMLNeed to test my aliexpress 7800x3d asap that it isnt DOA - how screwed am i?

Amazon purchases are easy support, take photos, log in & find purchase … rest will be obvious!





261 for this then 1000 bucks for ram :D