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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
14 Aug 2026, 7:00 PM	Tom's Hardware	3.5	Intel VP Robert Hallock sets Nova Lake expectations, teases return to Raptor Lake for DDR4 platforms — our full 1:1 interview transcript Intel VP Robert Hallock gave a rare interview to Tom's Hardware setting expectations for the upcoming Nova Lake platform and teasing a return to Raptor Lake for DDR4-based platforms, coming months after the Core Ultra 200S Plus CPU launch. The full transcript is behind a Premium paywall (£25/year). Why: If you're speccing local dev or AI workstations on a budget, the tease of Raptor Lake returning for DDR4 platforms suggests Intel may keep DDR4 alive for another cycle—relevant if you're deciding whether to standardize builds on DDR4 or commit to DDR5 now. Nova Lake expectations being set early means you can defer high-end CPU upgrades if you're not bottlenecked today. hardware cpu intel workstation

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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.

14 Aug 2026, 7:00 PM

Tom's Hardware

3.5

Intel VP Robert Hallock sets Nova Lake expectations, teases return to Raptor Lake for DDR4 platforms — our full 1:1 interview transcript

Intel VP Robert Hallock gave a rare interview to Tom's Hardware setting expectations for the upcoming Nova Lake platform and teasing a return to Raptor Lake for DDR4-based platforms, coming months after the Core Ultra 200S Plus CPU launch. The full transcript is behind a Premium paywall (£25/year).

Why: If you're speccing local dev or AI workstations on a budget, the tease of Raptor Lake returning for DDR4 platforms suggests Intel may keep DDR4 alive for another cycle—relevant if you're deciding whether to standardize builds on DDR4 or commit to DDR5 now. Nova Lake expectations being set early means you can defer high-end CPU upgrades if you're not bottlenecked today.

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