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14 Aug 2026, 5:43 PM	Tom's Hardware	4.0	Gigabyte resurrects 8-year-old B450 chipset with new motherboards — AM4 budget king returns as another DDR4 solution to exorbitant RAM prices Gigabyte is releasing new motherboards based on the 8-year-old AMD B450 chipset for the AM4 socket, positioning them as a budget DDR4 alternative amid high RAM prices. The move signals that DDR5 pricing remains a pain point and that the AM4 platform still has commercial life for cost-conscious builders. Why: If you're speccing a budget workstation or homelab in Malaysia and DDR5 pricing is stretching your build cost, AM4/B450 boards with DDR4 remain a viable cost-saving path — but you're buying into a dead-end upgrade platform, so only do this if upfront cost matters more than future CPU upgrades. hardware budget-builds workstations
11 Aug 2026, 11:06 PM	Tom's Hardware	3.5	AMD highlights Ryzen 5 5500 briefly topping Amazon CPU best sellers, beating 9800X3D — $80 DDR4 CPU remains a top seller during memory crunch AMD highlighted that its Ryzen 5 5500, an $80 DDR4-based CPU, briefly topped Amazon's CPU best-seller list, outselling the newer 9800X3D. The chip remains a top seller amid an ongoing memory crunch that has driven up DDR5 prices. Why: If you're speccing budget dev machines or homelab servers now, DDR4 platforms like the Ryzen 5 5500 offer a cost escape hatch from the current DDR5/memory price crunch — worth factoring into procurement decisions before assuming you need the latest generation. hardware cpu budget-builds memory-pricing

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14 Aug 2026, 5:43 PM

Tom's Hardware

4.0

Gigabyte resurrects 8-year-old B450 chipset with new motherboards — AM4 budget king returns as another DDR4 solution to exorbitant RAM prices

Gigabyte is releasing new motherboards based on the 8-year-old AMD B450 chipset for the AM4 socket, positioning them as a budget DDR4 alternative amid high RAM prices. The move signals that DDR5 pricing remains a pain point and that the AM4 platform still has commercial life for cost-conscious builders.

Why: If you're speccing a budget workstation or homelab in Malaysia and DDR5 pricing is stretching your build cost, AM4/B450 boards with DDR4 remain a viable cost-saving path — but you're buying into a dead-end upgrade platform, so only do this if upfront cost matters more than future CPU upgrades.

11 Aug 2026, 11:06 PM

Tom's Hardware

3.5

AMD highlights Ryzen 5 5500 briefly topping Amazon CPU best sellers, beating 9800X3D — $80 DDR4 CPU remains a top seller during memory crunch

AMD highlighted that its Ryzen 5 5500, an $80 DDR4-based CPU, briefly topped Amazon's CPU best-seller list, outselling the newer 9800X3D. The chip remains a top seller amid an ongoing memory crunch that has driven up DDR5 prices.

Why: If you're speccing budget dev machines or homelab servers now, DDR4 platforms like the Ryzen 5 5500 offer a cost escape hatch from the current DDR5/memory price crunch — worth factoring into procurement decisions before assuming you need the latest generation.

hardware cpu budget-builds memory-pricing