AMD Planning “Long-Term” Support for New Threadripper Socket, sTRX4

[Tsing]

Expect backward compatibility to make a return for 4th and 5th Gen Threadripper. In a post explaining why it went with a brand-new socket (more data pins were required for increasing bandwidth), AMD mentioned that sTRX4 would be supported on a "near- and long-term basis." The implication is that Threadripper 4000 and 5000 should slot nicely into most TRX40 motherboards.

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[Dudhunter]

I feel like computing at the prosumer level is growing by leaps and bounds in a matter of months. Fun time to be an enthusiast.

 

[Dan_D]

Because that is the arena where more cores, memory bandwidth and connectivity counts, its seeing the most benefit from the technological advances.

 

[Azrak]

I hope the MB makers decided to not skimp on the UEFI BIOS flash chip size this time.

 

[noko]

This is very good news and more incentive vising to get. I like the longevity of AM4, on my fourth CPU -> same motherboard albeit the first two were both 1700x's. 1700x (poor OC, damaged the CPU by OV) -> 1700x (Great OC), 2700 (good OC) -> 3900x (Fantastic everything!) Really the jump in CPU performance, PCIe lanes, PCIe 4x etc. is extraordinary and is way beyond what Intel has to offer in virtually everything. For me this is more wait and see how well it matures, issues, support etc.