Before the Spring Festival（Chinese new year),I5 8400(in bulk) = ￥850 Yuan and I3 8100 = ￥530 Yuan;Before 2018-4-1，in China,I5 8400(in bulk) = ￥900 yuan ,about 140 US dollars；Now I5 8400(in bulk) = ￥1050 yuan.Please see a minute.Something is very cheap on taobao in China.
https://www.taobao.com/

A programmer i bought several days ago.
https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z...&_u=kl2lu3hc2ab

Do you buy somethings on ebay? Something is also very cheap.

Import from China will be more expensive and will take like 2~3 months to get here.

It is the best eShop in China.
https://item.jd.com/6646818.html

I did not want you buy something in China, i just want you compare the price of these U and mobo.In China now who buy pc of Skylake/kabylake will be regarded as idiot.

Maybe these prices will be lower after 2~3 months.

That programmer here cost 16 USD lol.

Prices here are high, crazy.

My god! How big is the world ,how crazy is the world. It seems happiness in china except the crowding.

Sometimes i buy from AliExpress but like i say takes 2~3 months to reach my house and somethings don't worth it. It is very difficult here. About the ME version, to downgrade it i have to downgrade the BIOS version, is that correct?

It is correct i think and all my practices verified this.

https://github.com/damnnfo/DeskMini-110-...%99%8D%E7%BA%A7

Afudos xxxx.rom /gan can not flash the ME region of bios.

To mobo of non-ASRock，the best tool flashes ME is just programmer.

Hmm. I'll take a look, thanks! I probably gonna get the Asrock MOBO, already bought the E3 1270 v5.

Yeah, i gonna think about it. Sad. DDR4 is so expensive almost the same price as the E3 1270 v5.

Could you get a GD25B128 chip or other compatible chip? I think preparing a backup bios chip or a programmer is best .

Oh, i can give you a 4GB DDR4 or 8GB if you are in china.