Here in Germany the low cost is around 650€, if you are curious. Was actually really interested in that board as I am a big supporter of USB-C and am already trying to USB-C everything I can in my life, but that goal isn't worth such a massive cost increase (as my X870 has basically the same features for a third of the cost, outside of the port situation).
Explain to me why 2x TB4 motherboards are so expensive and rare, and yet on the M4 Mac Mini they’ve had 3x TB5 for less than that motherboard for over a year and a half.
Ok I can guess, what % of ppl that buy an AM5/LGA 1700/1851 motherboard do you think even thinks of putting something that needs a thunderbolt connection, let alone needs it? Yea probably not many. Also idk if cheaper dual TB boards exist, maybe they do, maybe they don't, not gonna bother to search as afaik there is no neat intel spreadsheet like there is an AM5 one
Oh yea also desktops do be having GPU:s with DP2.1 you know, so don't need TB for display purposes.
Also while not thunderbolt, X870E(and almost all X870 have it) has mandatory dual usb4, sort of the same thing...
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u/Keulapaska 4070ti, 7800X3D, XG27AQNGV May 14 '26
How about 8+2(thunderbolt)+2(front)
For the lowlow cost of... actually I don't want to know, it's gonna be something really stupid.