This deal is now $11 cheaper using the code. No surcharge for bank transfers. RRP$199 at other stores.
Surcharges: 1.2% Card & PayPal, 2% AmEx. Free shipping excludes WA, NT & remote areas.
Previous poster:
Motherboard sales are pretty rare these days, this is one of the cheapest AM4 boards that has a good VRM.
You will not know unless you roll the dice
The most infamous words in Australian PC retailing:
"Centre Com reserves the right to not make a loss"
The best part are the Centre Com staff who patrol OzB but stay silent whenever the SHTF
In terms of honouring this deal, other OZBers have purchased this (without the $11 discount) and received the item. Postage to WA is ~$19 so the $11 discount pretty much goes towards reducing that postage a bit.
Warranty service is average. Centre Com will basically initiate the RMA process for you, but it is done through the main branch. It can take some time.
The main issue with Centre Com is inconsistency. What's shown online doesn't necessary matches what's in store. Another thing that can be quite frustrating is Centre Com can have 2 batches of same product being sold at the same time and they have different prices. For example, Clayton store had WD Green 240 GB SSD for $10 special, but when you pay for it at the store, the staff had to scan through multiple of them and find one that's in the $10 special promotion batch.
Man AM4 rocks.
Still great performance, a 5800x3D (or excellent value 5600) isn't that far behind the absolute latest CPUs at 1080p, and not really (or, barely, in the 5600s case) behind at all at 1440p and 4k.
I think people dont understand how little power they use VS the next gen intel and AMD chips.. and if you enable 45w in bios they sip power.. i have my 5700X B2 stepping at 45w and my RX6800 at 135w …. my system is hands down the most energy efficient for the performance you can get.
How quiet is it?
The Corsair rgb fans are pretty good…
and if you enable 45w in bios they sip power
Setting it to 45W in the BIOS doesn't reduce the amount of power the CPU uses to do any given amount of processing. It doesn't make the CPU any more power efficient. It just limits the CPU to using a maximum of 45W pf power, and to the amount of processing it can do with 45W.
Power limiting can definitely make a difference in efficiency e.g.
https://tpucdn.com/review/intel-core-i9-14900k-raptor-lake-t…
@BROKENKEYBOARD: I'm not sure you understand the relationship between power used and work done by a CPU.
Undervolting is quite different to power limiting a CPU.
AMD defines a table of C-states for its CPUs. If you want 100% of what the CPU can do it takes the maximum clock speed it can run at without overheating and that requires a certain voltage for the CPU to be guaranteed to be stable at that speed. To get 50% a lower clock speed is required so the voltage can be lower. To get 25% a lower clock speed still is required so an even lower voltage is sufficient. And so on. Power saving software detects the load and chooses the C-state required. The speeds and voltages take into account that some CPUs aren't as good at running with low voltages as others.
Power limiting in the BIOS doesn't reduce the voltage in each C-state. It just stops the CPU running at the highest C-state AMD has specified. But in all the lower C-states it is still allowed to use it is using exactly the same amount of power to do the same job as a CPU that isn't power limited in the BIOS.
Undervolting reduces the voltage for each C-state. And you hope you have a good example that can run stably with significantly reduced voltage. Undervolting does improve efficiency. If you can cut the voltage required by 5% you use 10% less power to do the same job.
@GordonD: Maybe this test better explains it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6aKQ-eBFk0&t=887s
They measured 11.8Wh power used to complete a task for a 7950X @ 65W limit versus 26.4Wh @ stock.
epic setup!
It's now out of stock everywhere except for Sunshine-VIC.
A note to buyers, this mobo has the pcie x16 on the second slot. 3 slot card will be choking in many mATX cases.
Yeah, I was wondering about this. The advantage is a wifi card can fit easily. Any thoughts on minimum case size needed for these 3.5 slot monstrosities with this card?
Maybe just go for a small ATX case? I feel that most new style mATX cases with extra vertical space have it in the top for cabling rather than down at the PCIe end for GPU air.
I have this board in an mATX case and have limited myself to a 2.0 slot 3060 Ti.
The main issue is actually not the mATX cases, unless the GPU actually needs 4 slots, it's more that if it needs 3.5 slots, the front audio connector, front USB connectors and front panel connectors may not have sufficient height clearance.
Another key issue is the second PCIe x16 slot (which runs at PCIe gen 3 x4) cannot be used.
Thanks Op. got one.
Usb 3 seems to be stuffing up on my x370 should I just replace with this?
Thanks . Price on ! But is centre com ok after many previous posts or am I getting confused with another company? Any feedback please ?