Future PC Building consideration

[RedLegend]

Hi guys, I am planning to build my first gaming PC ever and have been reading a lot about it these last months. My actual PC is more than 10 years old and can´t even raise fps of newer games beyond 5 fps. I am planning to build it AMD based and am trying to aim for a long run for it without any mayor upgrades down the line as to replace basic stuff like Motherboard, GPU, or even CPU if no significant upgrades happen that make actual game requirements obsolete. I realized we are at the end of the life cycle of the AM4 socket since AMD filled the 5 year support they promised for the socket and is launching the Zen 3 later this year. I was wondering if it would be actually a good idea to buy a series 500 motherboard since any future CPU upgrades past Zen 3 would most likely be aimed towards a new socket/motherboards not yet available. You would be stuck on Zen 3 for the rest of your motherboard´s life cycle (depending of how many years this generation of motherboards actually last). Do you think it would be better to wait for the next generation motherboards or buy a B550/X570 now (given they are out of stock and most likely will be for a very long time either way) ?

[zeusthemoose]

If you said you wanted to get it around now, do it once new GPUs and CPUs drop. You would be waiting over a year to get the motherboards that work after Zen 3. And since you are planning on using it as long as possible, there is a chance that when you do upgrade, the next motherboards might not even support what’s current.

[RedLegend]

15 minutes ago, zeusthemoose said:

If you said you wanted to get it around now, do it once new GPUs and CPUs drop. You would be waiting over a year to get the motherboards that work after Zen 3. And since you are planning on using it as long as possible, there is a chance that when you do upgrade, the next motherboards might not even support what’s current.

That is the main problem with building it now, it would not be ´´now´´, I am guessing this shortage of PC parts is going to run for various months and by the time I can actually get the parts, I would be closer to waiting less than a year for the new motherboards and all the last gen parts would not be supported for that new motherboards. I know I am getting ahead of having any real information to do the assumption but I don´t want to have a X570 motherboard in 3 years from now  and be stuck with an ´´old´´ Zen 3 CPU by that time. I want the future upgrade path to be opened with my starting setup. Since I don't have that much experience from past generations transitions, I want to know how would a Socket transition impact future upgrades based off from previous iterations.

[zeusthemoose]

1 minute ago, RedLegend said:

I want to know how would a Socket transition impact future upgrades based off from previous iterations.

Unless things completely change (ddr5 or some other standard becomes popular (which is unlikely)), an upgrade in the future wouldn't be much different on the next generation of mobos from b550 or x570. Thats assuming by the time you are ready to upgrade that a new socket is being used (which is likely in my opinion).