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Currently I have a ryzen 5 2600  with an ASUS tuf b450m-plus gaming motherboard. I want to upgrade for the best bang for your buck cpu, (5600x?) or should I also upgrade my motherboard to get pcie 4.0?

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52 minutes ago, hbsterling said:

Currently I have a ryzen 5 2600  with an ASUS tuf b450m-plus gaming motherboard. I want to upgrade for the best bang for your buck cpu, (5600x?) or should I also upgrade my motherboard to get pcie 4.0?

No point changing motherboard for just PCIe 4.0 support.

Just update to the BIOS to latest, before switching the CPU.

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AM4 in general is a great motherboard platform. I'm also running a B450 board and I even chose that since I don't use Ryzen 5000 and PCIe 4.0 support is only a small difference.

If you watch Linus videos you would know that PCIe 4.0 differences are only 5% or less in performance. You don't really get much more fps or faster SSD speeds through it.

Update your bios and use Ryzen 5000 with that board, you're fine.

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Just now, FRD said:

AM4 in general is a great motherboard platform. I'm also running a B450 board and I even chose that since I don't use Ryzen 5000 and PCIe 4.0 support is only a small difference.

If you watch Linus videos you would know that PCIe 4.0 differences are only 5% or less in performance. You don't really get much more fps or faster SSD speeds through it.

Update your bios and use Ryzen 5000 with that board, you're fine.

In terms of future upgradability, would ryzen 5000 support eventual ddr5/usb4.0 or no?

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Just now, hbsterling said:

In terms of future upgradability, would ryzen 5000 support eventual ddr5/usb4.0 or no?

Nope, I think there will be a totally new socket after AM4. For sure it will be a new chipset like 650 or 750, who knows.
DDR5 and USB 4.0 will be on a whole new platform in general, just because of the speeds that are not handled (yet) by today's components.
By that time we all have to upgrade our platform (motherboard+cpu+ram probably).

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2 minutes ago, hbsterling said:

In terms of future upgradability, would ryzen 5000 support eventual ddr5/usb4.0 or no?

likely no

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28 minutes ago, hbsterling said:

Currently I have a ryzen 5 2600  with an ASUS tuf b450m-plus gaming motherboard. I want to upgrade for the best bang for your buck cpu, (5600x?) or should I also upgrade my motherboard to get pcie 4.0?

just update the bios and switch your cpu, and the 5600x is a good choice if your gaming

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