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The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Have not built a PC since Windows7, what is the difference between a 150 and a top of the line motherboard?

[โ€“] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 12 hours ago

I'm talking more like the Windows ME/XP days to be honest. But too many to count. It's more that actually useful features that used to be fairly standard (like 7-segment status displays and speakers) are effectively being gated behind $500+ motherboards to make them more attractive. A board that would have come with alphanumeric status codes now is lucky to ship with a couple LEDs that just indicate where a problem is at, not what the specific problem is.