The PC world has welcomed AMD’s return to HEDT CPUs with Threadripper 7000, which competes in opposition to the corporate’s earlier Threadripper chips for one of the best CPUs for workstations. However that welcome won’t final very lengthy if TRX50 motherboards are as costly as a retail itemizing suggests. Noticed by X (previously Twitter) PC {hardware} sleuth @momomo_us, a retail itemizing for Asus’s TRX50-Sage WiFi motherboard exhibits a price ticket of almost $1,100, which is extra in step with workstation pricing than HEDT pricing.
AMD’s final HEDT CPU, Threadripper 3000, did not have low-cost motherboards, however even the highest-end fashions capped out at round $700, with many good fashions being out there for $500. At over $1,000, this TRX50 board is about as costly as workstation class WRX80E boards for Threadripper Professional 5000 WX-series CPUs whereas missing workstation options like octa-channel reminiscence.
However, it’s extremely doable that this itemizing will not be consultant of TRX50 motherboards as an entire and even Asus’s TRX50-Sage WiFi. @momomo_us solely offered a screenshot of the itemizing fairly than a hyperlink, and it is unclear which retailer made the itemizing. It is actually not a well known retailer like Amazon, Newegg, or B&H Photograph.
The worth tag itself can also be unusual, being precisely $1,087.96. Most motherboards, together with these for HEDT and workstations, promote for common costs, like Asus’s $999 Professional WS WRX80E-Sage SE. That and the truth that the motherboard is not in inventory might imply the worth is not life like.
Many retailers listing PC elements that have not come out but, and it is commonplace to see excessive costs that grow to be deceptive. It might be unusual for AMD to launch a $1,500 CPU that will be paired with $1,000 motherboards, so it is doable that this itemizing would not inform us the precise worth of upcoming TRX50 motherboards. If true, although, Threadripper 7000 is perhaps fortunate to have even a lukewarm reception.
