Gigabyte is launching B550 AM4 motherboards and recommending four-year-old CPUs because the memory crisis is really that bad

You don't need me to tell you the memory crisis is looking bleak, but, well, the memory crisis is looking bleak. So bleak, in fact, that Gigabyte has just unveiled a new series of AM4 motherboards. Yes, the socket we thought we'd be done with by now.

The B550 X Series, as Gigabyte calls it, is "engineered to be the most powerful refresh of the AM4 platform motherboard."

Gigabyte says it is perfect for the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, which was a reasonably beefy chip back when it launched in 2022. Gigabyte claims the 5800X3D is "widely regarded as the best cost-to-performance processor on the market" and that the motherboard is purpose-built to handle its 8 cores, 16 threads, and 96 MB of L3 cache.

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