AM4 had a fantastic run, so Im not even remotely surprised there is a new socket for 7000 series. Hats off to AMD for being customer-friendly. Given Intel's failings, they had no reason to support AM4 for so long, but they did it anyway. They've gained a fan here.,(reply>)," Lolz. I had AM3 and AM3+ boards came out ....they were backwards compatible w/ AM3 saved me $$$ on a new CPU....in 2009 money.<br><br>S#<a href=""http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23t"">#t</a> like that is why I roll with AMD."