[velox_io]

I'm impressesed by the initial performance numbers, the price, PCIe 5.0, Having 8 lanes to the PCH instead of 4, 10gbe on most motherboards. It's good that AMD is continueing the trend where users don't have to upgrade their motherboards every generation.

The main catch is DDR5 being expensive and compatability issues with four DIMMS[0]/ teething issues.

(Personally, I wish AMD released a 5900X/ 5950X with 3D V-Cache. The 5800X3D is nice, but I also need cores.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu9U7TVNImI

[quequeque]

Isn't this generation on a new AM5 socket, won't users need to upgrade their motherboards this generation

[neogodless]

To clarify, this is a new platform, but they have committed to maintaining the AM5 socket (and supporting platform) through at least some future advancements, as they did with AM4 from Zen, Zen+, Zen 2 and Zen 3.

[Rebelgecko]

I think they only committed to 3 years of support, so not as good as AM4's 6(?) years

[russelg]

They never committed to that much support for AM4 either, so I think that's a good sign.

[switchbak]

I'm bitter about trx40, myself.

[dralley]

Price isn't especially impressive. Performance is good though.

[velox_io]

It could have gone up (I think the EU/ UK will increase, we'll see). Still haven't heard anything on motherboard pricing (those motherboards with 20 powerstages aren't going to be cheap!).

Given the platform costs, the lowend 7600X doens't make sense. AMD does some weird product placing...

I didn't expect to see them hitting 5.8Ghz [stock], wow!

[neogodless]

They mentioned (in the live presentation) the motherboards starting at $125.