Do I upgrade old sys due to damaged mobo or replace it ???

[NEOSEPHIROTH]

I have a question please need advise on the opinions...

6 year old AM4 system ( msi b450 mortar max, 32gb ram,ryzen 3600 ) and the motherboard chip is faulty and it's way out of warrantee.

Do I upgrade now and possibly save R3000 down the line with mid am5 kit for approx, R9000 or get another R3000 board ( don't want to cheap out on quality and heatsinks )?

I am leaning to upgrade based on support and socket rumour of am6 chips possibly working on am5 too ( Im sure it would also lose performance )

 

[Johnatan56]

I doubt AM6 will be supported on AM5, that's why it's a different socket. It will just be likely that like AM4 now, they'll release some refreshed chips for it as well.

I would say it depends on use-case, if this is just for office or something, I would just get a new mobo, the 3600 still has W11 support.
If you're doing modern games, I would generally upgrade to AM5, AM6 will probably be another 1.5-2 years, and AM5 is set to be supported till 2027.

I am doubtful that the first gen of AM6 will be so much better than the last AM5 that it will render it obsolete, if that's your worry. Tech is a depreciating asset though.

 

[Spontaneous spinach]

Same thing happened to me , board died and found a similar x470 board and will use my old chip and buy one of those cheap 5000 series chips on AliExpress for cheap

 

[NEOSEPHIROTH]

Same thing happened to me , board died and found a similar x470 board and will use my old chip and buy one of those cheap 5000 series chips on AliExpress for cheap

Mmm good idea if sellers didnt do this often on those sites ....

 

[Zarnicate]

Had similar where the CPU failed. For me not worth trying to find a replacement CPU as the MOBO was 6 years old and is on 24/7.
It was better to replace MB, CPU & Memory.

What next is going to fail on the MOBO, memory next, and then?
Getting a new MOBO will at least get you another 6 years.