X670 CPU Support

[ninezerofive]

I think it's safe to assume that there will be X670 boards some time next year.

Do you think/Have you heard that they might drop some more CPU's from the supported list ?

Like they did with the first gen and x570 ?

Should I be worried that the 2600 won't be supported on x670 ?

 

[ninezerofive]

One of the tech-toubers I asked said that they will definitely drop the support for 2nd gen.
I guess it doesn't matter, I will most likely get 3600 anyway for my upcoming project.

 

[ninezerofive]

Wait so they're going to use the AM4 socket but drop support for older CPUs?

Well they dropped the support for first gen Ryzens on "some/all" not sure x570 boards.

My initial plan was to get a cheap mobo + 2600 and next year upgrade to the X670 board and later on to 4950.

But if I won't be able to use the 2600 on X670 then it's a problem.

But at this point I think I've made up my mind that I will go with 3600 from the get go and avoid any problems in the future.

 

[ninezerofive]

Rumour has it x670 will come with PCIe 5 and phase change cooling to keep the sucker in check.

Oh yea, PCIe 5 as well? That would be awesome.

 

[ninezerofive]

I have breaking news. When released, DDR5 will be faster than DDR4. PCI-E v5 will also be faster than PCI-E v4 also. The higher number means it’s faster.

Of course it’s hard to tell the difference outside synthetic benchmarks, though as it’s automatically included with future chipsets just be happy knowing it’s there

DDR5 starts at 3200 Mhz, fast DDR4 will be faster than cheap DDR5