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we've all had that moment of regret when we finish building a new computer or we

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get a new phone or a new car and then after like a week of bliss

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the company announces a new one is coming out that's way better than the

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one you just bought come on

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well that moment just happened to us here at LTT we had hardly finished

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building our land center before AMD dropped a bomb on the industry with

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their zen 2 aka ryzen 3rd gen processors

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so we are taking that bomb and dropping it into one of our land rigs to see how

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it handles and this is where we drop

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now it's impossible to predict the future that's tech tip number one so when we

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received the new cpus from AMD after just building the new lan center we all

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had a good laugh the sad kind

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but exactly how screwed are we by this and if you're in a similar situation

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exactly how sol are you well it depends

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does the store you bought it from have a return policy you may be able to return

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the product for a refund and get the shiny new part right away but if you're

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outside the return window what are your other options in our case we don't need

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to worry about a whole platform change since ryzen 2 and 3 both use the am4

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platform you might be able to give your motherboard a BIOS update drop in your

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new chip and enjoy the greater performance and we'll get to exactly how

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to do that in a bit but what if you just bought an Intel CPU and motherboard then

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you panic just kidding you've got a few options

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a lot of computer components especially newer stuff can retain a decent

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percentage of their value for longer so you can just sell the CPU and board and

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keep the rest of your hardware as it is still viable for the new build

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now the used market can be a bit fickle but if you kept the boxes packaging and

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receipt there's a good chance you'll be able to recoup between 60 to 75 percent

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of what you paid and sometimes more depending on timing or what area you

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reside in it's not ideal but

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it's better than nothing another thing you can do is use the parts you just

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replaced and build a rig for a friend they'd get a discount and they'd owe you

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one a favor you could redeem at the time of your choosing but back to AMD team

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red's commitment to supporting the am4 socket through 2020 has given us an

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interesting set of components that are all interchangeable we now have three

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generations of CPU that are compatible across six chipsets with a couple of

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exceptions first gen ryzen chips are not compatible with the x570 chipset and

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third-gen ryzen won't work on a320 boards while AMD has given us a neat

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little compatibility chart for their desktop chips Intel has taken it a step

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further for their processors with a very useful website dedicated to checking

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compatibility for older processors all the way back to the core ii quads those

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geezers all that to say basically if

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you've got an am4 motherboard chances are you can simply update your BIOS and

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drop your new ryzen processor in for an easy bump in performance if you've never

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updated your BIOS before it's pretty easy head to your board manufacturer's

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website go to the support section and search for your board's model number

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once you find it look for the latest BIOS update usually they're sorted by

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newest first then download the installer and run it this should be a relatively

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simple process but keep in mind if the power goes out during a BIOS update your

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computer could be bricked so ideally use

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a ups or definitely don't do this during a thunderstorm

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why would you be doing that now after your BIOS is updated pull off your

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cooler and remove your old CPU then install your new shiny one

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put it all back together boot it back up and pray to the pc gods it all works

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hot tip i've heard they're more likely to listen if you buy our merch at

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ltdstore.com now i hear some of you asking but riley

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am i losing out on performance by not also upgrading my motherboard i heard

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some of you say that just now the meds are starting to wear off well with ryzen

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probably not the only major feature added on x570 is PCIe 4.0 support which

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right now only provides a bump in performance for NVMe ssds as they can

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use the increased throughput now for those of you saying but

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x470 can handle PCIe 4.0 well AMD is

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turning off that functionality in their next agiza update we will have to wait

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and see what board manufacturers do in response but for everyone else you

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probably won't notice any difference in gaming now we should say buying a 3rd

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gen ryzen chip with an x570 board is

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technically the recommended configuration we suggest the 3700x

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because of its all-around fantastic performance and great pricing but if you

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have limited funds we recommend getting the best 3rd gen ryzen CPU you can

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afford and keeping your existing am4 motherboard unless it's an a320

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motherboards can give you an extra 1 to 3 FPS depending but realistically the

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CPU is the best value in this scenario and we recommend the board being the

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last upgrade if your current one is compatible so AMD has claimed that they

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have one of the most consumer-friendly series of cpus and chipsets in the

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history of the x86 platform but now that we can see almost the entire upgrade

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cycle how did they do well if you bought an x370 board and a 1700 x on release in

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2017 you would have been able to enjoy top tier performance for a year and if

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you just hated the feeling of running last gen hardware you could flip the

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1700x for about 75 the original price when the 2700x arrived another year of

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bliss and then another flip when the 3700x came on sale your parents never

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said no huh in total you would have spent just over

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500 and got to enjoy three generations of cpus from AMD that's pretty

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compelling if you fancy yourself an enthusiast plus you didn't have to

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upgrade your motherboard compare that to Intel at about 680 doing the same thing

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and that's not including the motherboard upgrade basically you have a fantastic

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amount of choice and can hit whatever price to performance threshold you

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desire with AMD's approach now maintaining that level of compatibility

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does have its downsides you can end up with a CPU that supports PCIe 4.0 and a

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board that doesn't have any 4.0 slots and if you have an a320 board well

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you're out of luck if you want to upgrade to zen 2. while there is a lot

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going for AMD here compromises had to be made to maintain stability and the user

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experience that's just life you know which brings us back to the land cave

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just kidding we've been here the whole time are we upgrading to ryzen 3

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although it would be quite simple to upgrade these rigs there are

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12 of them and honestly they're already delivering

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excellent performance so it doesn't really seem necessary but at least with

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AMD we've got the option speaking of which

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