I just want vscode to work, because it's awesome when it does... but I tend to have 5-10 editors open at a time and so far only sublime_text works w/ my workflow without crashing...though it sometimes needs rebooted when the plugin manager is having race conditions or other errors. Plus other electron apps. Current system is about 8-10 years old though, upgrading after christmas sometime to 3700x amd line and ddr4 3200 ram 32gb (upgrading from 8gb)...mobo should be quite upgradeable though to last another decade.
> mobo should be quite upgradeable though to last another decade
Wouldn't count on it. I can't remember the specifics, but we're coming up on the end of the vague time range that AMD said they'd support the AM4 socket. They talked about how difficult and expensive it was to get the interposer to connect the new chiplets to the old pins on the socket. I think Lisa Su also implied in an interview that AM4 is nearing it's end. In any case, DDR5 is coming in the next year or two which would necessitate a new socket, so I'd guess one more generation on AM4 at most.
I'm getting MSI MPG 570x motherboard. It's upgradeable to 128GB, 3700x is pretty performant. I don't game. I use linux + i3wm. I simply want my code editors/browser windows to stop crashing lol...
My goal is a decent build < 1000. I already have a case/power supply. Just getting CPU, Mobo, RAM basically. Keeping my r9 270x amd gfx card from 2013. Normal cooling. My RAM can go higher than 3200, but price range 3200 seems best bang for buck, I figure when it comes down I could upgrade to 128GB @ 4400 and eventually the cpu to whatever the highest end am4 socket allows, and a better graphics card and get a few more years out of my system.
I've never spent more than 800 on a system. I guess one man's 'wow this is cool' is another's 'no, that's lame' lol.
Elsewhere, Zen 3 has been rumored to be a full rewrite, i.e. a new microarch from the ground up. That doesn't jive well with maintaining socket compatibility with AM4.
The words I've seen from AMD on this matter seem fairly clear that they intend to keep Zen 3 on AM4. Most likely they'll wait until Zen 4 on a 5nm process to switch to a new socket(in 2021).
It's still a 'bit' upgradeable. But I think RAM/Gfx will get me further over the next 7-8 years in terms of speed/etc. It's a decent build comparable to maybe a $2000+ consumer desktop for $699. For my use case It'll fly compared to my system now which bogs down when I have 126 browser tabs open.
