- Aug 25, 2001
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What do you all think about the possibility of using the 200GE, not as a mini-ITX browser-box / terminal / business box (for which it WOULD be great, assuming that low-cost ITX mobos materialize in the next few months), but as a place-holder, with a really nice full-size ATX mobo, probably a B450 or even X470, with the intent of dropping in a 2600(X) or 2700(X) in six to twelve months down the road, when they will be cheaper?
The only thing that gives me pause, about doing something like that, is I read that the PCI-E x16 3.0 for a dGPU, is cut down to only four lanes on the 200GE, and if that was cut to four lanes, then what about the dedicated x4 for the NVMe M.2 socket? I really hope that wasn't cut altogether. (Two lanes would be enough for most M.2 drives, not to suffer too much unnecessarily.)
I guess, I'm primarily thinking of things like F&F build, where they can get into a nice AM4 mobo NOW, and an APU CHEAP, and then drop in something more powerful, maybe in six months to a year, we'll get Ryzen 3000-series CPUs on TSMC 7nm, with 12-core/24-thread on AM4 (three CCXs). Could happen, I hope that it does.
At that point, they would likely be set, CPU-wise, for the next five years or longer.
The only thing that gives me pause, about doing something like that, is I read that the PCI-E x16 3.0 for a dGPU, is cut down to only four lanes on the 200GE, and if that was cut to four lanes, then what about the dedicated x4 for the NVMe M.2 socket? I really hope that wasn't cut altogether. (Two lanes would be enough for most M.2 drives, not to suffer too much unnecessarily.)
I guess, I'm primarily thinking of things like F&F build, where they can get into a nice AM4 mobo NOW, and an APU CHEAP, and then drop in something more powerful, maybe in six months to a year, we'll get Ryzen 3000-series CPUs on TSMC 7nm, with 12-core/24-thread on AM4 (three CCXs). Could happen, I hope that it does.
At that point, they would likely be set, CPU-wise, for the next five years or longer.