I just saw available mobos on local e-shop and what the hell is wrong with Gigabyte? They would be my go-to choice, if only the 3 so far available boards (Aorus Gaming 7,9 and Ultra Gaming) werent actually top 3 most expensive!? Aorus 7 for 456 Euros, when i can have TUF Mark 2 for slightly less than 250.... what is this?
Its called hash markup for early adopters.
Retailers will do it to make the most profit at launch, and then the prices pretty much bottom out to normal prices.
Problem with these boards, is i never trust intel at prelaunch or hash passing QoC, so a lot of the boards i bet will be plagued with problems. This is why I asked earily when the mature boards will come out.
My 2 cents, unless u absolutely want it, or your a blog/youtuber who needs those visitors counts at showing off launch skylake-x, its best to wait for the mature stuff to come out. Trust me, board vendors are slow as snails with bios updates.
I was looking at these but the prices of the motherboards are absolutely crazy. The cheapest mobo's being $260!? Most being over $300!
Factoring this in the overall cost, I'm def gonna be waiting for threadripper..
You know thats not really fair to compare launch scalp prices.
X390 board retailed at 699.99 @ some places.
And if you wanna get real technical... you cant even buy a RX 580 now without paying 1080ti prices, and well we know which is a better value unless your a coin miner.
I am effectively a virgin purchaser and am using the IGP in my Ivy Bridge as we speak.
If Half Life 3 came out, then I would likely be inspired to buy a discrete GPU.
well i dont think skylake is in your prospect then...
I think coffeelake would be more your pie, as it has IGP + most likely a more acceptable price tag on its performance / dollar vs skylake-x.
keep note coffee lake should be roughly 2/3rds the cost of skylake if not 1/2.....
Skylake is Enthusiast where as Coffee Lake is mainstream.
If your after the core count and u dont use a dedicated GPU, that tells me your probably more raw enterprise side, and well, i believe enterprise boards have onboard dedicated to cover the lack of IGP.