Bad news for AMD fans. We’ll see cheap motherboards later
Do you have an older PC? Have you been planning to upgrade to the latest generation of AMD? Then you need to be patient, at least if you don’t want to spend a fortune.
This month, processors have been launched on the market AMD Ryzen 9000 for desktop computers. We are talking about Zen architecture 5 and the connection 4 and 6 nm lithography from TSMC. In total, we got four different models – Ryzen 5 9600X, Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X.
AMD B840 motherboards feature… PCIe 3.0!
As in the case of generation AMD Ryzen 7000 the socket used is AMD AM5so there is no need to change motherboards. However, this does not mean that the Reds have not developed new chipsets. However, it looks like they will hit the market much later.
From the fair Gamescom 2024where this year there are an exceptionally large number of computer equipment manufacturers, information is coming in about the premiere of cheaper platforms with chipsets AMD B850 and B840 only in 2025. The most expensive motherboards with chipsets AMD X870(E) However, they are expected to appear later this year.
The reason for the delay is a mysterymaybe the Reds’ partners want to sell off older models first. As for the specification, the AMD B850 platforms are to be aimed at average blacksmiths – we will get here the possibility of OC for the CPU and RAM and a PCIe 4.0 connection for the GPU and PCIe 5.0 for the SSD.
AMD B840 boards will be a completely budget solutionmainly suitable for office computers. This is confirmed by the offer of only an interface PCI Express 3.0which is already an archaic solution in 2024 and no possibility of overclocking the processor.
