In theory? I'd rather look at practice. Sure AM4 wasn't perfect, but 43€ MSI A520M Pro has bios released on 2022-04-20 saying "Support AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D". Cheapest AM4 board.
Just a smidge more expensive at 50€, also "Supports Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor", GA-A320M-H, BIOS from 2022/06/24.
Sure there will be boards that never got support for ALL CPUs, sure it may happen again, but even so they eventually got more than equivalent Intel boards.
Oh, and these cheap boards still push basically same performance from these newer CPUs, that's what matters.
So if you buy board with good features, you won't lose in the future. Yes, when PCIe 6.0 comes, but that won't be next year. Or something similar that drastically changes landscape.
So either I somehow wrote in a different language than English, reading got exponentially harder all of a sudden, or you misunderstand what I said on purpose (or didn't read at all...), because I got a seriously hard time wrapping my head around where your problem even is. I kinda rule out one and two since I clearly wrote in English and others understood me, too. Anyways. Here we go.
First. Neither of those boards even match my qualifier, namely, 5 years or older.
Second, the 500 chipaet it literally AMDs latest, so it doesn't count at all, ever, in this context. Again, since that didn't seem to connect,
I am talking about upgrading from the first or maybe second CPU generation of Ryzen CPUs on a first generation board to the latest generation.
Third, if that isn't enough, "not utilizing the CPU to its fullest" does not mean only the raw performance of the CPU itself, but also stuff like connectivity. Some modern graphics cards will have huge performance losses, and future ones, if rumors are true, might have, too. Why? They only use 8 instead PCIe lanes, and those old boards have PCIe 3.0, which, again, causes problems. Unfortunately times two, those vards that exist today are also cards you would expect in a cheap system like this, just for the double ouch. However, you will also lose access to PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs, which can be an issue for some users, and possibly also fast RAM plus OC depending on the board. That's a lot of cuts.
Fourth and last, are you seriously proposing slapping a high-end CPU on a board with crappy VRMs like these?
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I mean you can, I guess, if you don't mind your great shiny new CPU dying after a year or two, or your board. Pretty zure that anyone who even considers bying one of those does, though. If you want your CPU to thrive, get a board with more than 6 crappy power phases. AKA one that isn't trash.
I can't currently check any more specs etc for those boards since my mobile connection is agonizingly slow this morning for some reason, but what I have seen so far is more than enough I need to k ow to steer far, FAR away from those cheap trash boards... and that doesn't even have anything at all to do with what I was even talking about in my post.
Also, again because you apparently didn't get that, either.
Boards with good features will be far too expensive for anyone with a small wallet.
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