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Ah. I assumed that "upgradeable motherboard" referred to being able to upgrade the CPU. My mistake.
by mastax 7y ago
Ah. I assumed that "upgradeable motherboard" referred to being able to upgrade the CPU. My mistake.
- lliamander 7y agoAMD has already confirmed that Zen 3 (Ryzen 4000) will be supported on AM4, so there's at least one generation left on that platform.
- distances 7y agoLast time I checked on this, the promise was a lot less clear than everyone is making it up to be.
- llampx 7y agoElsewhere, Zen 3 has been rumored to be a full rewrite, i.e. a new microarch from the ground up. That doesn't jive well with maintaining socket compatibility with AM4.
- lliamander 7y agoThe words I've seen from AMD on this matter seem fairly clear that they intend to keep Zen 3 on AM4. Most likely they'll wait until Zen 4 on a 5nm process to switch to a new socket(in 2021).
- gremlinsinc 7y agoIt's still a 'bit' upgradeable. But I think RAM/Gfx will get me further over the next 7-8 years in terms of speed/etc. It's a decent build comparable to maybe a $2000+ consumer desktop for $699. For my use case It'll fly compared to my system now which bogs down when I have 126 browser tabs open.