The absence of Meteor Lake is very disappointing. So much for my upgrade plans. Good news for Alder Lake owners though, could be an interesting in-socket upgrade for them. Turns out investing in Z690 might have been a very wise choice.

mackintosh:

The absence of Meteor Lake is very disappointing. So much for my upgrade plans. Good news for Alder Lake owners though, could be an interesting in-socket upgrade for them. Turns out investing in Z690 might have been a very wise choice.

I hope so. I got a cheap lol "$300" vs $500-$600 I usually pay. Stayed with i7. If i were to guess z690 might get skipped but I hope not.

mackintosh:

The absence of Meteor Lake is very disappointing. So much for my upgrade plans. Good news for Alder Lake owners though, could be an interesting in-socket upgrade for them. Turns out investing in Z690 might have been a very wise choice.

well if the past is any indication intel probably wont do 3 generations for a chipset/socket, even if its a refresh eg what happened with z170 through z370, intel chose to confine coffee-lake to z370 via a pin change to prevent them from booting in older motherboards.... hopefuly things have changed since then.

That's a good point, I completely forgot about Intel's shenanigans there. Hopefully with the PC market in a downturn they will keep Z690 compatibility this time around.

mackintosh:

That's a good point, I completely forgot about Intel's shenanigans there. Hopefully with the PC market in a downturn they will keep Z690 compatibility this time around.

I actually wanted to go Ryzen this time around, but I was worried about early adoption. And we are hearing 7000X3D might be just like 5800X3D. Locked and un overclockable. I also hear about Ryzen having worse 1% lows. Could be true I do not know for sure.