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[–] commander@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I bought into AM5 first year with Zen 4. I'm pretty confident Zen 7 will be AM5. There's got to be little chance for DDR6 to be priced well by the end of the decade. Confident that I'll be on AM5 for 10+ years but way better than the Intel desktop I had for 10 years because I will actually have a great update path for my motherboard. AM4 is still relevant. That's getting to almost 10 years now. It'll still be a great platform for years to come. Really if you bought early in the life of first gen chips on the socket for AM4/AM5, you're looking at a 15 year platform. Amazing

[–] Flipper@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

For this generation we changed nothing. Except for the motherboard. K, thanks, bye.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

Gotta love all the talk of no hardware plateau when we are talking about 10 year old hardware formats being desirable over the current gen stuff.

I am going to be using AM4 until there is a reason to upgrade and honestly? I think I might be on AM4 for another 10 years with how things are going.