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*** AMD "Zen" thread (inc AM4/APU discussion) ***

I wonder if I break some kind of record in terms of performance gains if I upgrade to Ryzen. I'll be coming from a decade old q9450 socket 775 system. :)
 
I would hold fire on purchase as there might be no point going high end mobo if Zen does not clock good, that £90 job will do just fine. Strange pre-orders are up and no reviews.
 
I think they are just uploading the pages ready for the 6pm reveal.

It also mentions this on the main motherboard page

"AM4 motherboards from MSI, ASUS, AsRock, and Gigabyte"

So give it a bit and they all might be up!
 
Mobo manufacturers have seen what Intel users are willing to pay. Zen is a SOC ffs, the chipset is even cheaper than it used to be, AMD are absolutely destroying Intel in CPU pricing, but they've decided to milk the chipset, doesn't seem plausible to me.

Mobo manufacturers just putting completely worthless marketing junk on motherboards to jack up pricing then push those prices up so high they push up the lower end mobos a bit to follow them. £154 for the Asus seems a tad overpriced to me, with brexit and the pound as it is, we should have seen the £100-110 boards without all the gimmicks move up to the £125-130 price point imo.
 
Nelly said:
Held off buying memory early, I wonder if we will have kits specifically tuned to AM4. H'mm...

I'll wait till the Soltek, Soyo, Abit and Epox motherboards are in stock.
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DDR4 is just DDR4, the current stuff works absolutely fine, we've being playing and testing Zen for months and just using Kingston, Corsair, Teamgroup memory etc. without issue. :)
 
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