There's a new budget AMD AM5 motherboard chipset in the works, which I’d usually applaud in these times of overpriced components and high living costs, but there’s one aspect of it that caught my eye, and it’s a big red flag if you’re building a new PC, particularly for gaming. The new AMD B840 chipset only supports PCIe 3.0 for both storage and graphics cards, like it’s traveled in time from 2016, and this will seriously impact performance. It was easy to miss this announcement in the flurry of new information AMD just released about its new Ryzen 9000 CPUs, but it’s right there at the bottom of the table announcing the new lineup of motherboard chipsets. That limit to the aging PCIe 3.0 interface doesn’t only mean you won’t be able to run the best graphics cards at full speed on this new chipset, but you won’t be able to get the most out of the best SSDs either. Continue reading Make sure you avoid these new AMD Ryzen 9000 motherboards for gaming MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Ryzen 7 7800X3D review, Best gaming CPU, Radeon RX 7800 XT review