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would it be worth it starting on $99 and upgrading to Ryzen 7 later on. I was going to do that with AM3 but then they dropped the socket. and the upgrade path

would it be worth it starting on $99 and upgrading to Ryzen 7 later on. I was going to do that with AM3 but then they dropped the socket. and the upgrade path is quite big here if it's all on the same socket.

merb 9y ago
well I actually have a ryzen 1500x and I'm happy with it. I mean I actually looked into 2400g and maybe upgrade/downgrade to it because vega is built-in and probably good enough for my use case (and not as loud as my R9 280)
- makapuf 9y ago
  Careful that gpu support is shaky at best under Linux (things should improve with kernel 4.17)
  - merb 9y ago
    well my mainboard is shaky with linux support also... somehow the chipset does not love it :( (b350m)
  - sliken 9y ago
    I've been hearing that for a decade or so.
zdw 9y ago
AM3 and AM3+ lasted quite a while - used from new CPU's 2009-2014, which were the high end desktop sockets from AMD until 2017. In the same time Intel went through 4 sockets: LGA 1156 -> 1155 -> 1150 -> 1151
- sliken 9y ago
  5 actually, there's two versions of the 1151 and they aren't compatible.