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Your budget motherboard is throttling your expensive CPU, and you won't notice until it's too late
Budget motherboards are fine for mid-range CPUs, but pairing one with a flagship processor like a Ryzen 9 or Intel Core Ultra 9 can lead to silent CPU throttling under sustained workloads. The culprit is weak VRM (voltage regulator module) hardware that overheats and reduces power to protect itself — something that won't show up in casual gaming but becomes obvious during video rendering, large compiles, or AI inference. Feature checklists (RGB, PCIe 5.0, Wi-Fi 7) don't reveal power delivery quality, so buyers need to match motherboard tier to CPU tier. The advice isn't to always buy expensive boards, but to spend appropriately when investing in a high-TDP flagship chip.
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AM4 CPUs are cheaper than ever, and AM5 still isn't worth the platform jump
AM4 remains a compelling platform in 2026 due to a combination of AMD's continued support and a thriving secondary market. AMD has reinforced both ends of the AM4 value spectrum: the budget-friendly Ryzen 5 5600F and the returning Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition at $349. Meanwhile, used AM4 chips like the Ryzen 5 5600X ($135), Ryzen 7 5700X ($168), and 5800X ($183) offer significant generational upgrades without requiring a platform change. Jumping to AM5 still demands roughly $800+ in new components (motherboard, DDR5 RAM, new CPU), making it hard to justify — especially since at 1080p and 1440p, the GPU is typically the bottleneck before the CPU. About 18% of AMD Steam users are on pre-Zen 3 chips, representing a large pool of users who could benefit from an affordable AM4 upgrade rather than a full platform migration.
