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This is intended to be an update to an earlier breaking story. For the full details on our original coverage, go HERE.
Yesterday, we reported on the apparent mass stock shortage of AM4 X370 chipset motherboards. According to our industry sources, prior to the Ryzen launch and positive reviews, there was some some concern amongst motherboard makers over how well the chip would sell and as a result, only a small number of boards were produced as part of the first batch. Obviously, things went the other way, Ryzen is selling very well and motherboard makers are scrambling to meet demand.
Today, we have a bit of an update on that front. We are still expecting stock to replenish within the next couple of weeks but a second source has given us some details on Gigabyte, ASRock and Biostar stock. For starters, a Gigabyte shipment is said to have arrived in the UK today but with very low quantities of X370 motherboards.
As for ASRock, we were told that they missed the original shipment date but should have motherboards in the UK sometime next week. We are unsure on quantities but hopefully it will be enough to satiate those currently pre-ordering ASRock X370 motherboards at retailers.
Finally, if you are looking for a Biostar motherboard then you may be kept waiting a while. According to our source, Biostar is currently ironing out the last remaining BIOS issues on its boards, which are affecting memory. This is said to be causing a two to three week delay.
KitGuru Says: After our report yesterday, we received quite a few comments from readers with boxes of fresh new PC parts and no motherboard to join it all together. Hopefully you can all start to get hold of the boards you really want soon. Speaking of which, what board are you planning on using for your Ryzen-based build?
It’s best to wait a year or so, I bet the first year of motherboards will have problems…
If we all wait until next year to upgrade to Ryzen there won’t be an AMD to buy from. That’s obviously an over exaggeration but we can’t all wait for AMD to be competitive in the GPU world so that we all buy cheaper Nvidia cards and neither can we wait until Ryzen is without flaws or else AMD will simple go under. Zen needs to be successful.
Who wants a biostar board anyway
I’m still waiting on my Asrock X370 Taichi, but I’m in America…personally, I stay away from Asus boards since it seems like 9 out of 10 builds have the same few Asus boards and I don’t want the same thing as everyone else
For me this is one level of stupidity. Even some MB manufacturers have said that Ryzen is good and everything and now they can’t meet demand. For bios problems, well that is other problem
OK. AMD’s fault. They should have covered the board manufacturers financially so they could produce more boards. For a complete build I was doing I only got the fan.
No Processor/RAM and board. I pre-ordered day 1.
Amazon UK no stock message on launch day. Board and processor.
In stock on Scan UK so switch. They turned my order into a pre-order? (Eventually got Processor)
Moved board to Aria UK. Paid but not shipped and no email response. Gone to ground or bust.
RAM bought it on ebay. (hopefuly will be OK)
Disaster and still no running ryzen system
They should have covered the board manufacturers financially so they could produce more boards
wat
Don’t buy the X370 Aorus Gaming 5 folks, it’s UEFI is garbage.
Or intel paid them off to make z270 boards instead.
I am waiting for the ASUS CROSSHAIR IV Hero, all the other parts for a complete build are in.
16GB Corsair Vengeance 3200
850W Corsair PSU
1TB Corsair SSD boot drive
3TB Seagate storage drive
28″ Ultra Wide monitor from LG
CoolerMaster AIO water cpu cooler
EVGA 1080 ATX 3.0 overclocked GPU
Windows 10 Pro OEM
Corsair K70 rapid fire keyboard
Logitech Mouse
Logitech 5.1 speakers
NZXT Phantom case (white)
All stacked up waiting for the motherboard. It is frustrating as hell to have to wait like this.
Hi there fellow sufferers.
I wrote to Scan Computers last December about pre-ordering parts
for my new Ryzen build but was delayed till the launch on 22/2/2017.
I still haven’t got the 1800X CPU and X370 Gigabyte board. While
these parts were delayed for self builders like me Scan continued to
take new orders for their own brand Ryzen PCs with the same parts
they diverted from us to their own expensive PC rigs. So much for
sales on a first come basis!
Very disappointing especially after AMD promised plenty of stock
available for launch.