Five years is a long time in the IT world where some manufacturers release numerous sockets with minimal pin changes, requiring users to buy a new motherboard each time. AMD, on the other hand, is currently showing how sustainable use of resources works and has enabled the support of new Zen 3 chips on the 300 series mainboards. Therefore, read the following from MSI’s now available UEFI updates for the old mainboards.
AMD’s AM4 platform is technically a bit behind Intel’s latest Alder Lake platform. It “only” offers PCI-E 4.0, the well-known socket AM4 and support for only DDR4 memory. So far, newer processors can also be packed on old mainboards on this platform, so that no new PC has to be purchased. Long after the corresponding announcement, a manufacturer, MSI, is now taking the best path for consumers and is officially offering AMD’s AGESA 1.2.0.7 UEFI for X370, B350 and A320 mainboards.
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This fulfills AMD’s promise that the latest CPU is also compatible with the oldest mainboards of the same socket, and the Ryzen 7 5800X3D can now also be operated on the mainboards from 2017. The UEFI updates required for this can previously be obtained from one shared by MSI Google Drive folder related and should also be entered promptly on MSI’s website under the corresponding models.
While the mainboards with the 300 chipsets already receive the current AGESA update to version 1.2.0.7, owners of an MSI board with a 400 or 500 chipset will have to wait until the beginning of June. Only then will the updates be released for them. Unlike the 300 boards, these users are not concerned with CPU compatibility, but only with a performance problem when fTPM is activated, which the new code is supposed to fix.
Source: MSI via Videocardz
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