Despite being just a humble CPU socket, AMD ‘boldly suggests’ AM4 has ‘legendary status’
Despite being just a humble CPU socket, AMD ‘boldly suggests’ AM4 has ‘legendary status’
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The legendary status goes to LGA 1155 or LGA 775. AM4 was great but Zen/Zen+ even Zen 2 kinda meh looking back at it.
AM4 is in fact legendary
AM4, 775, 1366… all legendary. Among others, mostly older ones.
Really was legendary status. Socket AM4 had an entire 5 generations of CPUs on a single socket. I personally started out with a 28nm Bristol Ridge A12-9800 APU (pre Zen) and ended with a 7nm Vermeer 5800X3D CPU. Almost the entire time on the same ASROCK B350 chipset motherboard until I finally upgraded to an X570 chipset motherboard because certain games had performance problems when bottlenecked by bandwidth restrictions of a PCIE3 M.2 SSD.
AM4 is legendary. I upgraded to AM4 when the first Ryzen came out (I was on FM2+ before that). I upgraded to a 5000 series CPU at the end of last year, only reason I got a new board was because I wanted 2 nvme slots. Otherwise I could have kept the one I had.
(Friend got a nice upgrade though, game him the board, CPU and the 1660 for free as I took pity on him still having an A8 CPU and it gave me an aneurysm watching him play WoW at sub 30 fps)
I had 3 diff gen CPUS in my AM4. Yeah I would vote it to be legendary!!!
I think something needs to really die (in this case reach EoL) in order for it to become legendary.
Seen as how I bought my x370 prime pro with a r7 1700, upgraded to r5 3600, which I plan to uograde further to a 5800x3d soon… I’d say there’s still life there.
Nothing but the truth here
Still runnig a lower tier am4 cpu so i still can upgrade at least once.
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I’ve been calling AM4 legendary for years, where’s my article?
It’s not just legendary, it’s probably the obvious choice for best consumer socket of all time. I’m not sure there’s ever been a socket that was as upgradable as AM4, or as long lived. And it’s going to be around for a looooooooooong time. Guarantee in 10 years there will still be people rocking AM4, and the crazy thing is, it’ll probably still be pretty decent. Even Sandy Bridge today isn’t useless, and the CPU’s that you can drop into AM4 are a lot more powerful even relative to current hardware.
I mean, it does though. name an Intel socket that lasted that long and had such a performance increase over its life.
And no, before anyone even says it LGA775 doesn’t count as no board could use every CPU that used said socket.
I’ve been using the same mobo since 2018, and with just bios updates I’ve been able to keep up to date with windows and the newer ryzen chips. Am4 and the associated chipsets are truly legendary. No other platform has had a nearly 10 year long life cycle. Plus new am4 chips just came out