Ryzen APUs use TIM under the IHS rather than Solder

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I just want them to improve the PCI-E Root complex for the refresh to give us in the very least 40 lanes.

I think the market for anyone that actually needs that much is still somewhat small.

… and it is shrinking into oblivion because of less and less support from AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft and game devs alike.

The only thing I can think of where more PCIe would be interesting is storage. But then again, we have no way of fully utilizing today’s fastest NVME drives because even USB3.1 gen2 isn’t remotely fast enough and thunderbolt is Intel / Apple developed and will probably die like firewire in a couple years. The special connector for it is already gone.

Also price is important, Ryzen is a consumer part. If you absolutely need tons of PCIe there are other options, like @mihawk90 said.

[mihawk90]

support from AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft and game devs alike.

To be fair most of that stems from the small market as well. The gain of even a second GPU (nevermind a third or fourth) is just not enough to justify double the price. And also today’s GPUs are fast enough to handle most gaming scenarios with 1 GPU anyway.

But… We kinda drift off