Also, fuck Micron and the loyalty I gave them
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2026
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I built an AM5 system because I wanted to ensure that if I want to upgrade it, I won't have to buy an entirely new motherboard. Coming from Intel who change their socket every two weeks, I thought it was a great idea at the time.
The cost wasn't prohibitive, the kinks ironed out quite fast. But I don't like DDR5 RAM. Like, it's RAM, I don't notice anything spectacular about it. What I do notice, is that it takes FUCKING AGES to post!
It's taking 21 fucking seconds to do some kind of "memory training!" It used to be over 40 seconds! For what? No noticeable difference in user experience other than it taking forever to boot.
This makes me really sad & concerned for the future of modern computation.
It's obviously planned obsolescence for the sake of suppression pertaining to the masses.
That was always the case. This PC replaced my 1150 socket intel PC, which had new CPUs made for it from Q3 2013 to Q3 2014. AMD at least keeps their sockets usable for a couple of years before they change them.
1150 was superceded by 1151. Those are the number of pins on the header by the way, so they had to add one extra pin because it was obviously stifling innovation.
The last time I upgraded my CPU was at least 8 years before I upgraded my GPU which was about 5 years ago..lol
You're right, my socket allowed me to get a much better model.
I know about pins and sockets, btw. But for the other readers, thanks for explaining ;)
Aye, figured it was worth noting that they obsoleted it because they absolutely had to cram in that one extra pin! You can't convince me that they didn't do that just to fuck with people.
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