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Captain_Yuri said:

It is cause some people made purchases thinking their older mobo's will work with the new zen 3 cpus. There are people that recommended getting the B450 over X570 due to this reason since AMD didn't say it wouldn't be supported going forward. I think the general expectation was that every motherboard that has the AM4 socket will support all the cpus that are made for that socket and that expectation was set by AMD.

Now personally, this isn't the biggest of deals since 3 generations of support is still pretty fap worthy but I do think they should have communicated this with the Zen 2 launch.

And here I thought all AMD users are millionaires by now by only buying AMD for the past decade and saving so much money.

Loll I will say that going from 1700 to 3900X without needing to swap out the motherboard did save me time so if nothing else, there's that!

The question now is how restrictive AMD will be if some of the motherboard vendors want to add support for their new CPUs with their old motherboards. When PCI-E 4.0 just came out on AMD platforms, Asus figured out a way to have their X370 Crosshair IV that originally shipped with PCI-E 3.0 to have PCI-E 4.0 compability with a BIOS update as long as you had a Zen 2 CPU which actually worked. But AMD said nope and forced Asus to revert pack.