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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

32GB of ddr5 can be found for ~$100, and any other upgrade from a ddr4 platform today is going to require new memory.

So the DDR4 13th series folks can stay on their oxidized processors, or they can pay money to get something else. Not much else to do there.

I upgraded my AM4 platform system to a 5800x3d a while back and it's still working just fine. I wouldn't recommend people buying into AM4 today just because no more upgrades are coming... but AM5? why not? It'll be around until ddr6 is affordable circa 2027.

I'm super interested in seeing how intel's 15th gen turns out. We know it's a new socket so the buy in cost is sky high as all have argued here (that mobo/cpu/ram is crazy expensive.) I can only imagine they will drop power load to avoid more issues but who can say. Maybe whatever design they are using won't have been so aggressively tuned or if they're lucky hasn't started physical production so they can modify it appropriately. Time will tell, and we won't know if it has the same issue for a year or so post release.