ConsistencyWelder

I have no idea, but I suspect the hard thing about making a modern modem is not so much making it, but making it without infringing on a bunch of patents and copyrights.

Not actually, if the CPU is released next year, it's supposed to start with 8. The first number is the release year.

They said when they released AM5 that they were going to keep supporting AM4. They weren't lying.

AM4 support has been legendary. Wouldn't surprise me to see a 5950X3D at some point. Maybe even Zen 3+ products.

It's one of the most efficient cards out there, about twice the performance/watt of Nvidias offerings in the price bracket, and the price is low enough that it doesn't matter much that the gaming performance isn't great. For someone that needs a cheap GPU for an HTPC or server with no iGPU, it's not bad. Even runs some older games and emulators well enough.

I'd rather they make a 5950X3D. But I suspect it might be coming.

Weird to see how he tests with standard RAM on the 7800X3D but expensive DDR5-7600 RAM for the Intel CPU. You'd think he would compare under similar conditions and not give one of them an unfair advantage.

Shitshow? AM4 support has been legendary.

If you're referring to the BIOS issue, that was not really their fault, but the fault of some motherboard manufacturers being stingy with the memory on some BIOS's.

The main issue was the limited memory on the BIOS chips. To include more CPU's meant losing support for old chips, this could potentially get people trapped with a motherboard they didn't have the right chip for, and no way of upgrading it, like if your CPU had died or you had sold it before updating your BIOS.

They ended up solving the issue by making a program where you could borrow a CPU from AMD to do the upgrade with. It surely cost them a lot of money, but that way they could have older motherboards get support for 5000 series.

AM4 was released in 2016 and started with support for CPUs before Zen 1.

Also, the last CPU released for it was the 5600X3D which was this year.

When they released it they said they're guaranteeing support for 3 years, but are aiming for 5+ years.

AM3 was supported for 6 years, AM4 has been supported for 7 years and they're still releasing new CPUs for it. So while past performance doesn't guarantee anything, they do have a good track record.

I thought much of the performance increase came from using faster DDR5 RAM with the 780M, but this seems not to be the case, it's faster even with the same RAM.

It's not just about what you need today, it's also about what you need in a couple years. If I pay $1600+ for a video card you can rest assured I expect it to be used for more than a couple years. Skimping on the ports seems like a bizarre choice.

How are those Merc 310 cards at stock btw? They seem to be much cheaper than other cards, do they have flaws? Loud fans?

Thinking of buying a Merc 310 7900XT.