What determines if a motherboard can drop in new cpus?
What determines if a motherboard can drop in new cpus?
I had a ASRock b350 and missed the train to upgrade to a 5800x because of the BIOs. If I had a slightly different MoBo I could have upgraded.
Looking for a AM5 board now and putting in a 7600 for now. But looking to see if I can get 8800x3d or hopefully the 9800x3d in 2026.
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Generally it's the mobo chipset that determines which CPUs are compatible. Often the chipsets are compatible with two generations of CPUs, that was the case with H6xx from intel, i got one with an alderlake cpu amd could upgrade it a year and a half later with rocketlake. The mobo OEM needs to support this in their uefi/bios