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My impression is that even on a desktop computer which is highly modulable, after 5/10 years you have to throw away everything but the case and maybe the power
by forty 6y ago
My impression is that even on a desktop computer which is highly modulable, after 5/10 years you have to throw away everything but the case and maybe the power supply. New CPUs won't have the right socket for your mothercard, the RAM will need to be DDR(n+1), same for the PCIe port.
- llampx 6y agoThe last few years of AMD desktop CPUs would like a word.
- spijdar 6y agoGP said after "5/10" years. AM4 was only launched in 2016, and is already "showing cracks" in support, where old motherboards will, in practice, not support new CPUs without juggling firmware. Obviously I can't predict the future, but I feel like AMD will release a new socket within a generation or two, which fits within the "5/10 year" mark.
- llampx 6y agoSure, but 5-10 years is a long stretch, considering we are talking about a notebook that you can't upgrade once it is built. Surely there's a middle ground where upgrades should be possible within a couple of years? Also, 16GB sounds awfully low to me. Why has the laptop industry decided nobody needs more than that? It seems to be the limit for laptops with soldered memory, with few laptops coming with more than that. Anyway I voted with my wallet and bought a laptop that has a Ryzen CPU and upgradable memory and SSD, and a very manageable weight.
- forty 6y agoYeah, I have an AMD FX-8150 (AM3+) based desktop tower from 2012, which I recently wanted to upgrade, and which largely inspired my comment :) Even with AM4 based CPU, I'm under the impression that recent CPUs cannot always use old mothercards.