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  • Mark__Jefferson@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It’s generally expected that hardware/software companies support their past devices as long as their is no hardware limitation preventing them from doing so.

    Try explaining that to /r/amd

    • PsyOmega@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Didnt AMD reverse course on that and enable their old mobos to accept zen 3 though?

      Like yeah it was a shitty block in the first place, but it was made good.

      • duplissi@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        that was becuase a lot of motherboards shipped with only 16mb rom chips for the bios, and at the time that was not enough to enable support of all am4 processors. To counter this many vendors released upgraded versions of existing motherboards with 32mb of rom for the bios.

        I believe amd was eventually able to work around this, but there was a technical hurdle in this case. People did need to rake them over the coals for it tho.