Socket AM4
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Search complete. 5 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Socket AM4".
Oct 16, 2026
The RTX 5090 is Dead - Our Thoughts
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43:50Steve WaltonHOST
completely perfect on Radeon now.
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43:52Steve WaltonHOST
And since doing that testing, I've done a whole lot more and I've done it on AM4.
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43:58Steve WaltonHOST
So I've done it with a 5800X 3D, still 32 gigabytes of VRAM, and I'm comparing the 5070 Ti and 9070 XT.
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44:07Steve WaltonHOST
Exact same thing.
Podcast #885 - Rising Hardware Prices, New USA NAND Fab? No RTX 6090 For You, and MORE
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81:43Jeremy HellstromPANELIST
Okay.
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81:45Jeremy HellstromPANELIST
I mean, yeah, I just, how was am for 10 years old? How are we in an industry where we used to be excited about major upgrades and taunted Intel for getting bored after like eight months and just totally moving to a new socket and possibly a new chipset? We've hit the point where AM4 is a decade later.
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82:12Jeremy HellstromPANELIST
Not even socket seven lasted this long.
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82:15Jeremy HellstromPANELIST
No, nothing lasted this long.
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82:46Jeremy HellstromPANELIST
There is a certain ship which has come back and is relatively affordable, especially when you get a 240 mil liquid cooler with it.
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82:56Jeremy HellstromPANELIST
Like the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th anniversary edition.
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83:01Jeremy HellstromPANELIST
No, it's not the 10th anniversary of the 5800X3D, it's AM4.
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83:06Jeremy HellstromPANELIST
But this is Canadian pricing, so not so bad for $500 to get that and a Cooler Master Elite Liquid 240 to upgrade the system that you were going to be stuck with for a long time because you can't afford to upgrade the RAM.
The Funniest Podcast Moments, From Bidets to Half-Life 3 | OTC EP 100
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80:28HiTechLoLifeHOST
So essentially what this person did was they bought a used CPU, a Ryzen 7 5800X3D.
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80:34HiTechLoLifeHOST
Still a great CPU for gaming, by the way, in case you want to go AM4.
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80:38HiTechLoLifeHOST
But it was banned from Valorant.
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80:42HiTechLoLifeHOST
And not only can they not play with it, but it also flagged the rest of their hardware as being banned as well.