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2020 is currently just 18 months ahead. In the consumer's pov that means close to nothing. Heck, I assume they would not be able to change within that time fram

• jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
  The commitment was made over a year ago when Ryzen was first released. Basically it was a guarantee if you were going to upgrade you processor in the next 3 years you wouldn't have to get a new motherboard. A moderate upgrader would get 1 upgrade out of this deal, an aggressive upgrader (gets ever new chip), would get 3 upgrades. Someone who is conservative and only plans to upgrade ever 5 years or so would see no benefit. However, Intel seems to change the socket every. damn. time.
  • skgoa 8y ago
    > Someone who is conservative and only plans to upgrade ever 5 years or so would see no benefit. I disagree based on my personal experience. The CPU upgrade path for my current desktop computer ended roughly a year after I bought it, even though that CPU generation had been introduced very recently by Intel. I got a relatively high-end CPU, so upgrading to anything but the highest-end CPUs of that generation doesn't really make sense from a performance point of view. Yet those still cost a surprising amount of money today and offer worse performance than the midrange options of newer generations. Simply put, extending the lifetime and thus upgrade path out by at least 150% means that the options available 5 years down the line will be 150% "better", even though no CPUs for that socket might even be in production anymore at that time. For me that seems like a significant advantage.