News AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Review: Zen 4 Has a Pricing Problem

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Practically no OEM has a case design for any particular CPU or chipset and practically all of them only ship systems with matching-generation motherboards since that is one more shiny new thing they can mention in the specs even when chipset features remained completely unchanged. There is practically no "tooling change" between generations for builders who use standard mATX/ATX/ITX motherboards. My i5-11400 is in the same Antec 300v2 case I bought for my i5-3470 10 years ago.

Tooling also includes software. OEMs cheap out on whatever they can, so if a platform doesn't change much, they can save more pennies here and there.

Regards.

 

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Tooling also includes software. OEMs cheap out on whatever they can, so if a platform doesn't change much, they can save more pennies here and there.

Regards.

AMD, Nvidia, Intel, etc. practically all have universal drivers for their chipsets and GPUs. As long as OEMs update their install images to be reasonably current, which they really should be, there is no meaningful additional work required on the software front. Even if you stick to the same AM5 motherboard for four CPU generations, you will still need updated driver packages between generations to handle the different IGPs, integrated IOs and other CPU features, so the OEM still would need to update install images between generations even if it kept the same motherboard all the way through. Also still needs updated BIOS to handle the new CPU generations, so no savings there either.

 

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What board do you have? I’ve got a 5900x running on an asrock ab350 pro 4 and have no issues with it.

It's an HP prebuilt with a board that was SUPPOSED to be an early B550 chipset, but as it turns out, is actually a modified B450 chipset. Very particular about what ram it can use, gen 3 x2 nvme slot. A lot of undersized specs.

But it has a 3700x in it, and I have a ton of DDR4 in both sodimm and desktop dimm form. I'd imagine the really nice AM4 boards with an X570 chipset and good power delivery will get a lot cheaper soon? I'll keep an eye out.

The cpu is good enough for my current needs. Upgrade path to a 5800x3d or a 5950x isn't terrible. If I have to start from scratch and buy all new parts, I might wait a bit and see what Intel has to offer with 13th gen and ddr4.

Smart to keep a foot in both ram technologies.

LOL, someone else here said its none of our business, because if they're too expensive we just shouldn't buy them.

Mmmm...okay? ¯\(ツ)/¯ 😀

Wasn't that the title of the article we were then supposed to comment on?

AMD with their cpu's and Nvidia with their gpu's are priced way too high with the current new gens. I hope AMD doesn't follow suit with overpriced 7000 series gpus. I really, really don't want to pay for Lisa Su's leather jacket from her image consultant. The crypto profits are gone. Y'all aren't geniuses because y'all sold a lot of gpus for 400-600% of the cost.

 

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I actually have considered Intel 13th gen. Not that I won’t still but I think before that I want to get a 32 inch 1440p 144hz screen been seeing one around the $240 mark. Then after that, possibly go to a better gpu. Don’t really need to as my 6700xt is just fine but if I get a really good deal and can sell the 6700xt for a fair price….probably will do those 2 things before a new platform since the 5900x should still be enough for a couple more years I’d imagine.