[SOLVED] Are x570 boards going to be obsolete soon?

[MoreMoneyThanSense]

I know x570 boards support higher end AMD CPUs and PCIe 4.0 but to my understanding there will be PCIe 5.0 very soon and the new AMD socket AM5.

Does this mean that I am better off waiting a bit until new motherboards are made that support this even newer hardware, or is x570 here to stay for a while?

 

[USAFRet]

"very soon" ?

18 months at the very least.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14447/pcisig-finalizes-pcie-50-specification
"I’m not expecting to see 5.0 show up until 2021 at the earliest – and possibly later than that depending on just what that complexity means for hardware costs."

https://www.extremetech.com/computi...ow-available-before-pcie-4-0-has-even-shipped
"The earliest we’d expect to see PCIe 5.0 adoption would be in 2020, and 2021 wouldn’t be crazy depending on how quickly Intel and AMD adopt the standard."

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/66109/pcie-4-barely-here-already-seeing-5/index.html
"We could see PCIe 5.0 roll out in the coming years on next-gen Intel and AMD platforms"

 

[MoreMoneyThanSense]

"very soon" ?

18 months at the very least.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14447/pcisig-finalizes-pcie-50-specification
"I’m not expecting to see 5.0 show up until 2021 at the earliest – and possibly later than that depending on just what that complexity means for hardware costs."

https://www.extremetech.com/computi...ow-available-before-pcie-4-0-has-even-shipped
"The earliest we’d expect to see PCIe 5.0 adoption would be in 2020, and 2021 wouldn’t be crazy depending on how quickly Intel and AMD adopt the standard."

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/66109/pcie-4-barely-here-already-seeing-5/index.html
"We could see PCIe 5.0 roll out in the coming years on next-gen Intel and AMD platforms"

Are there likely to be even faster CPUs etc than the 3950x for AM4?

 

[USAFRet]

Are there likely to be even faster CPUs etc than the 3950x for AM4?

Completely unknown.

But be careful about that cutting edge 'faster'.
Witness the dumpster fire that was the FX-9590.

 

[MoreMoneyThanSense]

Completely unknown.

But be careful about that cutting edge 'faster'.
Witness the dumpster fire that was the FX-9590.

How so? When I google that one it apparently had good benchmarks but just ate a ton of power and ran hot?

 

[USAFRet]

How so? When I google that one it apparently had good benchmarks but just ate a ton of power and ran hot?

You apparently did not find the rest of the reports.

That CPU had issues even running at stock voltage and GHz.
Required a very narrow line of motherboards, and was a bear to keep cool, again at stock settings.

It was initially heralded as the "Best Thing Evar!"
Actual real world performance turned out to be completely different.

 

[zeus3freedom]

Obsolete? No!! However, depends on what you mean by that. I'm still using a 10 year old Gigabyte motherboard paired with an AMD Phenom II x4 955BE and it's still going strong today and it still can run modern triple A games (the system got upgraded with a SSD and a good GPU). In fact it will be used many more years to come by my parents after I will replace/update my build with a high end Gigabyte x570 Xtreme (which I plan to use also for a long time). So I think 'obsolete' is not the right term.