Since AM5 motherboards are newer, getting a used one would only be three years old at most, so there wouldn't be as much wear ...

Without Socket AM4, a Ryzen CPU (Opens in a new window) is just expensive sand. And as AMD put it, there's an untold story of how AM4 "scaled from a monolithic die with 4x28nm cores (Bristol Ridge ...

In the case of AM4, the first processors it supported were the likes of the Ryzen 7 1800X, an eight-core, 4.0 GHz CPU that was designed to work with DDR4-2666 RAM.

AMD might launch another AM4 CPU, but it won't be based on Zen 4, at least according to one site. Skip to content.

AMD is holding to a four-year-old commitment to support the AM4 processor socket for its Ryzen chips through 2020, though some of its older chipsets are being dropped.

Two new Socket AM4 AMD Ryzen CPUs have just been unveiled, in the form of the AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT and AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT, with the latter being the fastest-clocked AM4 processor in its class yet ...

In five years, when AMD moves on to AM6, or whatever it has planned, the 5800X3D will still be the best AM4 CPU you can buy. It might cost you, though. Even then.