The costs for Asus’ new lineup of Intel Arrow Lake gaming motherboards have simply leaked, with the top-end ROG Maximus fashions apparently demanding excessive premiums. In reality, the top-end Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Excessive seems to have a value of nicely over $1,000, which might purchase you a complete gaming PC, full with a good CPU and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GPU proper now.

The brand new lineup of Intel Arrow Lake CPUs is ready to make use of the brand new LGA1851 socket, requiring you to purchase a brand new motherboard, with the brand new Z890 chipset sitting on the prime quality. It’s doubtless that this new lineup will embrace a number of the finest gaming motherboard designs you should buy, but it surely appears as if you’re going to must shell out a big stack of money for the flagship Asus fashions.

This newest leak was flagged up by common tech leaker momomo_us, who shared some screenshots from a retailer displaying a number of Z890 motherboards with listed costs in a submit on X (previously Twitter). In these screenshots, the costs had been listed in GBP ex VAT, however they arrive from US retailer HSSL, and we’ve checked the costs in {dollars} ourselves, as proven within the screenshot beneath.

If these figures are genuinely consultant of the costs of those motherboards at launch, then the brand new Asus ROG Maximus boards look set to be extraordinarily costly. Let’s begin with the Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Excessive, which HSSL lists at a large value of $1,111.87. That is prone to be a really fancy board, although, if it’s something like its predecessor. The ROG Maximus Z790 Excessive comes with a matric LED show within the shroud protecting the rear I/O panel, for instance, in addition to an OLED display embedded in one of many M.2 SSD heatsinks.

The opposite boards within the vary aren’t as costly, however they nonetheless demand a hefty premium. Even the Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Hero is available in at $780.66, and that is often the extra cheap mannequin within the Maximus lineup. The location additionally lists the brand new Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Apex at a value of $812.29. Even the most cost effective ROG Strix board, the Z890-A Gaming WiFi, is listed at a value of $445.04.

Fortunately, there are some extra inexpensive fashions coming from Asus by the appears of it. With HSSL itemizing a value of $256.50 for the Asus Prime Z890M-Plus WiFi, though that’s nonetheless a giant chunk of money for what’s prone to be an mATX board with a stripped-down characteristic set.

Mainly, if these costs maintain up, it’s going to value a good bit of cash if you wish to improve to one of many new finest gaming CPU choices from Intel once they launch. What’s extra, there are additionally rumors that the Arrow Lake refresh is canceled, probably that means the brand new Intel LGA1851 socket will solely be round for one CPU era, just like the LGA1200 socket Intel used for its Eleventh-gen Rocket Lake CPUs.

If that’s the case, then you might find yourself spending some huge cash on a brand new motherboard that you simply received’t be capable of improve with a next-gen CPU at a later date. Comparatively, Intel’s LGA1700 socket has lasted by way of three generations of processors.

Should you’re pondering of placing collectively a brand new rig within the close to future, then check out our full information on construct a gaming PC, the place we run you thru each step of the method, together with putting in a CPU in your motherboard.