Is anyone here camping out waiting for this motherboard? It feels like custom keyboard deja-vu...from April to June I camped out on the KBDFans Discord waiting for the DZ65RGB PCB to restock because it previously sold out in under 30 minutes, and it was the last part I needed for my build. The suspense was intense. Now the same thing is happening with this motherboard: it's the last part I need for my build, and the hype surrounding the Tomahawk combined with the lack of availability is nuts.
FYI, the MSI X570 Tomahawk is basically the newest AMD X570 mobo in the $200ish range, and it is far and away the best reviewed one in that group. Not only does the Tomahawk have features every other popular board is missing at least one of--a front USB-C i/o port, the latest Bluetooth spec, heatsinks on both M.2 slots, more high-speed USB ports in general, etc.--but it absolutely destroys in VRM/thermal performance. In overclock testing, it showed temps equal to motherboards costing $700. It was supposed to be released back in April, was delayed, was announced on sale in May, still wasn't available, and throughout all of May and June, any pre-order or back-order sales went out of stock in seconds. Amazon and Newegg didn't even put up official product pages until midway through June.
I check newegg, amazon, B&H, cdw, and a couple other sites daily for restocks, but every time it comes back in stock, I end up discovering the ashes of the reddit thread where a handful of people scored one and everyone else complained that it went out of stock in minutes, was taken out of their shopping cart before they could even finish paying for it, all the things we are familiar with here in keyboard land. It would probably be smarter to think of other things for a month and check availability in July/August, but instead here I am writing about it looking for a conversation with strangers. Doh!
