nIGhT-SoN wrote:The thing is you can upgrade after 5years to a Ryzen 2, let's say. You buy it second hand and you extend your usage by another 2-3 years without having to buy a whole new platform (cpu, mobo, ram). Or you can upgrade as soon as Ryzen 2 gets out, you sell yours add some money to that and you get another up to date platform. If you are not looking into upgrading, Apple is the best. To me it feels like bad investment not to be able to upgrade.pekbro wrote:I think at a minimum when building a new system you should expect 5 yrs
service life out of it. As soon as you get the board its likely already out dated,
with the frequency of revisions and whatnot. After 5 years and you want to build
a new one with the latest chip, why would anyone want to put it into a 5 yr
old main board. That makes little sense IMHO.
My 2 cents.
And motherboard doesn't actually influences your performance if you don't cheap out. But now even $100 boards will have at least 10years of life at normal parameters. I know my old LGA775 board run and still runs well for like 10 years. Also how much did motherboards change in the last 10 years? You get USB3.1 now, UEFI bios and that's kinda all that's really new. Ram modules changes like 5-7 years and the performance increase from DDR3 to DD4 is not that big, especially for music production. So my question, why would you change a board that can run the latest CPU?
You make some good points that I never thought about.
Any idea if the latency issue on ryzen is linked to the chip design?
So if I went ryzen now I can upgrade to the likes of ryzen 2 on the current ryzen boards ? And possible ryzen 2 won't have the latency issues ?
Ryzen 1700x still offers a huge leap for myself lol
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