Image credit VideoCardz.com via Board Channels
Unfortunately, there is no true budget platform for any AM5 socket CPU, as AMD made the decision to leave DDR4 behind when AM5 was introduced back in 2022. I don’t think many people thought twice about that decision as DDR5 prices were well on their way to price parity with DDR4 at the time, but we now live in a nightmare world with RAM gets more expensive every week.
