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I upgraded my 10 year old PC to Ryzen 5000 a couple of years back, and have never really looked back. Sure, it wasn't that long until 7000 supplanted it, but my

I upgraded my 10 year old PC to Ryzen 5000 a couple of years back, and have never really looked back. Sure, it wasn't that long until 7000 supplanted it, but my PC is still just fine, and will likely be for the next 7 years or so (the biggest wild card is Windows support). The only thing I really regret is getting a B450 Motherboard that only supports 1 NVMe SSD (and only PCIE Gen 3 SSDs). I would focus on making sure your motherboard has enough RAM and SSD expansion room, and then buy a big enough power supply for whatever GPU you want to run. You might want to figure out whether Zen 5 will have a new chipset, and if so, will the IO be significantly better. Nothing else is going to make a huge difference.

jauntywundrkind 3y ago
It greatly frustrates me that many AMD desktops have broken sleep/suspend modes. I moved & started actually paying my power bill, and I really wouldn't mind my desktop's 100w draw if I could effectively suspend it and wake-on-lan it as needed (for either remote gaming, or to hop back into an existing tmux session). But if I suspend it, it goes down maybe ok, but never wakes up; I literally have to unplug it to get it back. The various threads about give me the sense that I am far from the only one here with these kinds of issues. I tried windows, I tried turning on every wakeup I could find in the bios, I tried turning on every wakeup I could find in Linux. There's two different sleep modes, tried that. I wouldn't mind having lost like 8 hours of time to this issue, except I feel like I'm nowhere; no suspend, no tools to see what is or isn't happening. And it seems very prevalent on AMD. Frustrating.
- edward28 3y ago
  Maybe you are having issues with the motherboard drivers/firmware. Most motherboard manufacturers are pretty terrible at this sort of stuff.
- wtallis 3y ago
  Microsoft and Intel has a very overt conspiracy to kill ACPI S3 suspend. They mostly succeeded, so suspend support on recent platforms is now no better than in 2005.

jauntywundrkind 3y ago

It greatly frustrates me that many AMD desktops have broken sleep/suspend modes. I moved & started actually paying my power bill, and I really wouldn't mind my desktop's 100w draw if I could effectively suspend it and wake-on-lan it as needed (for either remote gaming, or to hop back into an existing tmux session). But if I suspend it, it goes down maybe ok, but never wakes up; I literally have to unplug it to get it back. The various threads about give me the sense that I am far from the only one here with these kinds of issues. I tried windows, I tried turning on every wakeup I could find in the bios, I tried turning on every wakeup I could find in Linux. There's two different sleep modes, tried that. I wouldn't mind having lost like 8 hours of time to this issue, except I feel like I'm nowhere; no suspend, no tools to see what is or isn't happening. And it seems very prevalent on AMD. Frustrating.

edward28 3y ago
Maybe you are having issues with the motherboard drivers/firmware. Most motherboard manufacturers are pretty terrible at this sort of stuff.
wtallis 3y ago
Microsoft and Intel has a very overt conspiracy to kill ACPI S3 suspend. They mostly succeeded, so suspend support on recent platforms is now no better than in 2005.