💻 Technology May 10, 2026 · Joe Rice-Jones

I upgraded to AM5 expecting a massive jump, but the real upgrade surprised me

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I upgraded to AM5 expecting a massive jump, but the real upgrade surprised me
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I was a very early adopter of the AM4 platform because, at the time, I was part of AMD's influencer team, received pre-release hardware, and was physically at the Zen launch event. At the time, it was a huge jump from the older Intel platform I'd been using, which had DDR3, PCIe 2.0, and a short expected lifespan because of Intel's release cadence. I used that hardware until very recently, and only upgraded when my daily tasks felt slower to accomplish.

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