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Join us as we talk about the recent review of the Ryzen 3 3100 and 3300X

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PK

Thanks guys for your live stream ...I finally found a local Aussie expert.

Ralph Ashley

What do you think of Nvidia claiming "Lower TDP per tier" relative to Ampere- Nvidia's lower TDP was always because they segmented gaming from HPC with multiple dies- though Nvidia loves software to follow code-paths, but then there's still DLSS, tensor cores, and more RT cores; that's still a lot of area for signals to cover over one die- something's gotta give, even at 7nm

Stephen Hunter

I guess that I can see your point about the B450's but I did buy one a few months back. I also bought a 370 back when I had bought a Ryzen 1600. I went with a B450 with my upgrade because even though the X370 board was compatible. The manufacturer of the board had not really released favorable updates as time went by. They actually dumped some of the features like load line calibration when they added Zen 2 support. This made the B450 more feature rich after three years than the X370. So even if AMD forced support the board manufacturer just did the bare minimum to make AMD happy. Now add to the fact that when I bought the B450 four or five months ago it was 2020 and I thought to myself its 2020 and this is the last year they promised compatibility. So either through stupidity or blind luck I thought it was already the last generation supported. I got a great bundle deal on the board and CPU and would not be upgrading for at least two years anyhow at which time they would have abandoned this platform completely. So really in my use case the B450 is still a great deal and AMD's announcement is superfluous to my upgrade path.

VeritronX

My housemate recently bought a B450 itx motherboard for the 4000 series cpu's because the X570 options cost more than twice as much without any features he'd use, and is currently running my old 1700 on it until they come out. His windows install is already tied to that motherboard too.

Yellowswift3

Kind of lucky that I went for an X570 board, I nearly didn't.

richardPhilips

if I bouth a b450 and 3600 I dont think I would need a CPU upgrade anyway not for a very long time

Christopher Martinez

same here, my little rig will last a long time, my lasat one suited me for 7 years haha

Dean Despotovski

Very lucky when I was buying I did not know about B450 & went with the X570.