This trend NEEDS to stop with motherboards!

This motherboard trend is terrible and NEEDS to stop!

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[conorturton]

The motherboard manufacturers have all seen what Nvidia got away with and decided they're going to do that too.

[MonzaniaStrike]

Finding a half decent motherboard with the I/O and features you want while not breaking the bank has never been so hard istg

[scimbrelo]

Me: I don't watch TV.

Also me: watches a 20 minute retrospective on motherboards

[joshdillon]

The thing I want to see them get back to is simplicity. I'm not looking at my PC when I'm using it, I'm looking at the monitor. Why in the heck do people want them lit up like it's Christmas? Give me components that are affordable and efficient. Take all the "fluff" out of it. I need a PC that does what it is built to do. It doesn't need to win fashion shows.

[ragingmonk]

I paid $180 for my B 550 when it launched. That is double of what I paid for my board 6 to 7 years ago. Back when Jay started the channel and ran AMD. He would recommend $60 - $70 boards and I bought $80 for some extras. Now $80 gets you the box and installation guide.

[RandomNY]

The trend with mobos, over the last bunch of years, is that the install guide went from being a book explaining every feature to a pamphlet that basically says, "Any questions go to our website." Hmm I'm building a computer so getting on the internet to look up a solution for an install problem is kinda a bit difficult with computer parts spread all over my floor at that moment.. Thanks.. :)

[LukeLane]

I remember buying an entry level motherboard just a few years ago for 70 bucks. It doesn't have a whole lot of features, especially no gimmicky ones, but it does the job. Enough connectivity, 2 M.2 slots. No RGB headers, though, but who cares.

[internetdr]

Reminds me in particular of a lot of what's going on in the new car market, all the way from base models up.

Companies are no longer selling products for an owner to do work with, they are now selling subscriptions to a limited set of services... that an owner has to balance out by buying even more subscriptions to other competitors who offer the needed features. Owners can no longer get what they need out of any product they buy these days, because companies realized a long time ago that they can earn more off folks by stratifying the utility of any product or service amongst their competitors. They'll do this for as long as they can, make it so we spend more so that they can all earn more.

But this is not a new thing, after all it wasn't long ago where you might have had to buy some exorbitant cable plan in order to get the few channels you wanted, all the while wasting hundreds of dollars on channels you'd never ever need. I'm sure other folks can provide their own stories about this.

[DepartedHunter]

I’m annoyed that back motherboards all had LED post code display. Now motherboards can have RGB yet they might not even even have a light to help determine errors.

[ravewulf]

Current AM5 motherboards have fewer PCIe slots, fewer SATA ports, and fewer audio jacks (sometimes only 2 or 3!). The improved aesthetics were nice for a bit but it's time to get back to the basics - connectivity!

EDIT: For those wondering why more PCIe slots are needed - 10 Gig NIC (the boards that have it integrated are way more expensive than just using a PCIe card), video capture cards, etc.

Plus if you want to make up for the low end boards skimping on audio jacks and SATA ports, that's more cards you need to add.

[kchaney]

I have been doing this for 30 years and to hear someone else say what I have been thinking is so refreshing. Thank you

[sammcj]

Honestly the biggest thing I noticed when getting a new AM5 board was that hardly any boards offer enough full length - or even x4 PCIe slots and instead offer completely useless x1 slots.

[Kirusei]

I miss when boards standard for the current time was affordable and usually ranged around $80-$140

[AftrBurNr]

The real irony here is that if there weren’t thousands of content creators hyping up PC building, parts, frame rates, etc the manufacturers wouldn’t have the customer base to be able to get away with what they’re doing.

[gekkehenkie]

My latest build is now 3 years old but I still remember the agony of comparing boards and their features.
And yes, it is getting much much worse (doing builds since 1999).
If only someone could scrape all the pecs, align them in a spreadsheet and show it to everyone
Choosing a board would be reduced to filtering columns

[Jauffre-innit]

PC brands have basically just groomed people into accepting insane prices for special new features which we will all definitely use every single day

[stack_overflow]

Frustrating for me these days is that it's hard to find motherboards with enough PCIe slots, as all the lanes have gone off to distant places like M.2 and Thunderbolt controllers. Finding a board with 2 16x slots is rare enough, most of the time the second full length slot is only 8x electrically. I know it's more of a niche use case, but some of us like to add stuff to our computers other than GPUs (high end networking, RAID controllers, etc.)

[vitor]

You actually don't have to go that far back in time. The B450 Tomahawk that was highly regarded as one of the best AM4 boards of that generation had a cost of ~120$ brand new. And this was in the middle of the pandemic.

[mikescomputercorner]

Definitely agree, I've seen a sharp rise in Motherboards with there being nothing to cover the basic build for people.. most people want a home computer to do their average daily work plus something they can play their favourite computer game in the evening.. The cost of building a basic system here in Australia with a suitable GPU for 1080P gaming is approaching the $1200 AUD .

[DGneoseeker]

I can see another trend going on with these. It looks like in another couple of generations the motherboard heat sinks will block out the sun.

Seriously, I'm curious. Does anyone encounter problems fitting in the CPU heatsink without these giant blocks interfering?