Is it? USD 450 is currently AUD ~670 according to DuckDuckGo. 10% sales tax on top of that leaves you at AUD 737. An AUD 13 premium in that price bracket is ... negligible. At worst. I would call it a rounding error.
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Is it? USD 450 is currently AUD ~670 according to DuckDuckGo. 10% sales tax on top of that leaves you at AUD 737. An AUD 13 premium in that price bracket is ... negligible. At worst. I would call it a rounding error.
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Beyond that, OC isn't likely to get better - the voltage needed to get the Ryzen architecture (at least on TSMC's low-power processes) to go faster is too high to run safely 24/7. Minor gains can happen, but generally things will stay put. Still, there is value to forcing a high all-core clock for a render rig or something similar, in which case manual tuning and beefy VRMs are useful. But you likely don't need the C8I, no. And for everyday, average use, the best thing to do with Ryzen 3000 chips seem to be leaving them stock and/or letting them have all the power and cooling you can give them.
"Is it?" was a direct response to you saying "What a rip-off." which... well, it isn't. You're essentially paying the US price in AUD + VAT. Which is the only sensible price, really. You're definitely not paying a premium.
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You don't seem to understand how high-end motherboard prices work. They never make sense in terms of value. Most US$700 motherboards don't perform noticeably faster than $200 motherboards, but have some added enthusiast features (such as 10GbE) and usually a lot of high-end OC features that the vast majority of even people buying them won't use. While this board isn't quite that expensive, it's still firmly in the "value has gone out the window" bracket. You don't buy this if you're on a budget. You don't buy this unless you a) can afford it, and b) are willing to pay for its featureset. If one or both of those don't apply to you, lower-end boards will serve you just as well (if not better!) for far less money - even running a 3950X. It makes perfect sense that people wanting the best of the best pay a significant premium for that (to cover up expensive R&D for small-run boards), and it avoids costs from these boards bleeding over into the pricing of other, cheaper boards.
Thanks for that info! I'm tossing up between the Impact and ASRock boards, mostly because of likely clearance issues with the Impact in the Ncase M1. Great to hear about the better VRM cooling on ASRock, not so fussed on less USB but the lack of fan control is annoying - do you think this is something they may improve with a BIOS update?
