AMD in its Computex 2026 presentation, celebrated 10 years of the Socket AM4 platform that kickstarted the company's long march to competitiveness with Intel in the desktop PC processor market, and its eventual domination. Socket AM4 supports the original "Zen" and "Zen+," across the Ryzen 1000 and ...
  • Xenny@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    13 hours ago

    Duuuude running an AM4 DDR4 system IS the most value for your money right now. They just announced the retirement of AM5 in three years. Its most efficient to buckle in with the best parts of the last couple year till we wait for the next series of hardware

    DDR5 AM5 The 50 series RTX cards

    All not fucking worth it for compute/price

    Im not poor poor but I’m not rich and I always shop saavy

    I maintain my AM4 socket 5700x3d RTX 4070s system is the most you can max out your system for gaming without dropping money you don’t need to drop.

    If you want to be efficient with your dollar you will always be picking up the parts that came out last year.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      15 hours ago

      Duuuude running an AM4 DDR4 system IS the most value for your money right now.

      That’s why I’m not upgrading.

      They just announced the retirement of AM5 in three years. Its most efficient to buckle in with the best parts of the last couple year till we wait for the next series of hardware

      I’m hoping to get a lot more than a couple of years out of my parts. I would much rather wait another 3 years and get something actually upgradeable…

      If you want to be efficient with your dollar you will always be picking up the parts that came out last year.

      AM5 came out 4 years ago!

      • Xenny@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        13 hours ago

        Fair enough! I got 7 years out of my 2700x setup so it served me well and I never buy the latest and greatest so it was time for an upgrade for my life!

        with my 5700x3d I figure I won’t be upgrading for another 6 years or so

        Also though just putting this out there. The prices of computer parts are highly volatile right now. Its honestly a bit of a gamble to expect the computing market to march forward as predicted. Part of the reason I upgraded now is because there’s a chance that prices and manufacturers shift so much that it makes building a PC prohibitively expensive. The powers that be are pushing for a compute by subscription model after all. And with the way consumer tech is progressing the older tech could still be “faster”. they might try to offload “power” into more ai gimmicks. The 50 and 90 series of RTX cards are a joke. The 4070super blows most of those cards away still.

        The 2700x is obsolete RIGHT NOW IMO so just thoughts to consider

        But hey maybe you just play Minecraft and balatro so it really doesn’t matter :p