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What determines if a motherboard can drop in new cpus? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by delitomatoes@lemm.ee to c/buildapc@lemmy.world

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I had a ASRock b350 and missed the train to upgrade to a 5800x because of the BIOs. If I had a slightly different MoBo I could have upgraded.

Looking for a AM5 board now and putting in a 7600 for now. But looking to see if I can get 8800x3d or hopefully the 9800x3d in 2026.

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[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

AMD has given its word to support AM5 til 2025

AM5 was released with the 7000 series CPUs. 8000s are absolutely going to be supported, and there's a very high chance 9000 will be supported as well. I believe AM4 was supported for 4 generations of CPU.

Chances are you won't conclusively know which CPU is supported until they are released, but to keep the odds ever in your favor you should pick a higher generation chipset. Unfortunately, it looks like only the 6xx generation are released at the moment so there's not much choice.