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So I know all the new AM4 "Ryzen ready" Motherboards are showing up as CES today, There's like 6 videos on it in my youtube feed, as well a ton of artcles online I'm sure.

 

One question I didn't haven't seen answered is what older chips is going to be supported on the new platform? I know I saw somewhere that they're going to be re-releasing AM4 compatible versions of older chips, but I never saw list of the chips that are going to be released.

 

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Okay I'm even more confused now, I just finished watching the Paul's Hardware video and he said they were going to reconfigure the current 7th gen APUs for AM4

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Why go for an older chip that's been updated to work on AM4 than buying a chip that was made from the ground up for AM4?

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new platform, new chip, new socket....... far as I know. no backwards compatibility.

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I don't know what the pricing on the new Ryzen chips are going to be, and it's not actually for me. My co-worker wants to build a budget AMD system, and I doubt any of the new Ryzen chips are going to be budget.

1 minute ago, frozeNNN said:

I am pretty sure none of older CPUs will be supported

Why are they being refered to as "Ryzen ready" then?

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54 minutes ago, Deusrex said:

I don't know what the pricing on the new Ryzen chips are going to be, and it's not actually for me. My co-worker wants to build a budget AMD system, and I doubt any of the new Ryzen chips are going to be budget.

Why are they being refered to as "Ryzen ready" then?

Who are "they"

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Absolutely none of the older cpus will work. They massively increased the number of pins and changed the layout significantly and 0 AMD cpus have support for ddr4 ram.

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3 hours ago, frozeNNN said:

Who are "they"

PCPer is the source of that specific quote. However I've heard it from other outlets. 

3 hours ago, incarnate said:

Absolutely none of the older cpus will work. They massively increased the number of pins and changed the layout significantly and 0 AMD cpus have support for ddr4 ram.

I see so thety just haven't announced any of the chips that are going to go on the AM4 platform?

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23 minutes ago, Deusrex said:

PCPer is the source of that specific quote. However I've heard it from other outlets. 

I see so thety just haven't announced any of the chips that are going to go on the AM4 platform?

No but they did announce the pin count... They added about 400. So yeah, you can rule out all current cpus

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10 hours ago, Deusrex said:

PCPer is the source of that specific quote. However I've heard it from other outlets. 

I see so thety just haven't announced any of the chips that are going to go on the AM4 platform?

Still haven't answered my question. You said "Why are they being refered to as "Ryzen ready" then?" so i am pretty sure you think about some older CPUs so say what older CPUs are "ryzen ready"?

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Zen is the architecture. Ryzen are the first CPUs on that architecture.

 

AM4 motherboards will only accept Zen CPUs (so only Ryzen at this point) and AMD 7th gen APUs (forgot what they're called). All FX and Phenoms and Athlons won't be supported.

Ye ole' train

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9 hours ago, frozeNNN said:

Still haven't answered my question. You said "Why are they being refered to as "Ryzen ready" then?" so i am pretty sure you think about some older CPUs so say what older CPUs are "ryzen ready"?

Mother boards are being refered to as "Ryzen ready" which lead me to believe that other things could go into them.

 

9 hours ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

Zen is the architecture. Ryzen are the first CPUs on that architecture.

 

AM4 motherboards will only accept Zen CPUs (so only Ryzen at this point) and AMD 7th gen APUs (forgot what they're called). All FX and Phenoms and Athlons won't be supported.

AMDs 7th Gen APU/CPUs are called Summit ridge.

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Just now, Deusrex said:

Mother boards are being refered to as "Ryzen ready" which lead me to believe that other things could go into them.

 

AMDs 7th Gen APU/CPUs are called Summit ridge.

What motherboards?

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Okay I'm even more confused now, I just finished watching the Paul's Hardware video and he said they were going to reconfigure the current 7th gen APUs for AM4

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44 minutes ago, Deusrex said:

Okay I'm even more confused now, I just finished watching the Paul's Hardware video and he said they were going to reconfigure the current 7th gen APUs for AM4

The 7th gen apus are the 9XXX series which are only compatible with am4

 

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/amd-am4-desktop-platform-bristol-ridge-apu-a-series-hp-lenovo/

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