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Mummelmann said:

JEMC said:

I don't think the price of current NVMe drives will change with the arrival of the 5.0 ones. Th performance jump isn't as big as the jump from 3.0 to 4.0, plus they need beefier cooling that makes them a lot more expensive.

And for me, the hardest part to choose is becoming the motherboard. I didn't know they had changed so much in the last years an dthat needing more than 4 SATA ports would be like a luxury, especially on AM5 motherboards. The lack of reviews doesn't help either, even more so if you're not going for the high end parts.

Bolded; this is an understated problem in today's tech media. It only serves to strengthen the notion that PC gaming is for "rich" people who are willing (and able) to pay 4-5 times more for their gaming platform than console gamers. There is a lack of reviews and reporting on middle or lower-tier hardware. I remember back in the 90's; anything from kitchen appliances, to cars, TVs, and housing, had a consumer first angle, it was informational and helpful for a wide potential audience. Heck, even Top Gear had its own consumer advice segments back in the day. Channels on youtube racking up millions of views on reviews of absurdly costly hardware, will see only a fraction of those viewers actually going out to buy the product(s) in question. It's almost more like watching Formula 1, or WRC, wanting to see the cutting-edge, but also knowing you'll spend a lifetime driving around in your Yaris. It's like the entire industry, and its proponents, just up and decided that the actual consumer no longer matters. Yes, some bigger tech influencers direct critcism towards the giants of the industry, but their focus remains the same.

For the newer generation, this disregard for tech and its relative cost, and the desire for an accelerated pace of markets and services, is ingrained behavior. One of the kids at work (I work with autistic, teenage boys) brought his "ancient" gaming PC from his mom's house, we took it apart, as he wants to learn about hardware. It had an MSI 1070 GPU, and decent RAM, topped with an i7 6700K CPU. His other desktop is one generation newer, yet he sees it as old.

I think the two above mentioned factors are a large part of why us "older" nerds aren't too happy with the industry today. On the one hand; we're seeing an industry hell-bent on overcharging and underdelivering, and on the other, we're seeing a new breed of gamers who simply accept this behavior as market reality as they chase this year's new phone models for 1200$ plus.

Well, the concept of new and old is hard to for some teenagers . Fashion has part of the blame for that, launching new collections every season and calling the prior ones old and outdated, and the smartphone business also played a key role in this mindset.

Companies that sell PC parts also want to highlight their best products and new features, which is why they send their top of the line products for reviews, more like how Intel, AMD and Nvidia launch their high end parts first, with mainstream and budget end parts coming at a later date.

Well, I'll keep looking at TechPowerUp for some mobo reviews, and Techspot for some roundups, that are also very helpful. If anyone knows other sites that reviews motherboards, please let me know.