Ryzen 1600 motherboard support out of the box

B1gbeard · 7 Jun 2017 at 08:54

Has anyone had any experience of the B350 boards and out of the box support with a 1600?

Bought a Gigabyte Gaming recently and had to send it back for a bios update as have no other Ryzen CPU.

Upgrading my other sons PC now and want to avoid the same situation. Looking at something like the Gigabyte Gaming 3 or Rog Strix B-350F.

Thekwango · 7 Jun 2017 at 09:05

B1gbeard said:
Has anyone had any experience of the B350 boards and out of the box support with a 1600?

Bought a Gigabyte Gaming recently and had to send it back for a bios update as have no other Ryzen CPU.

Upgrading my other sons PC now and want to avoid the same situation. Looking at something like the Gigabyte Gaming 3 or Rog Strix B-350F.

I'd say your best bet is the strix - it's the newer of the 2. So would expect it to have a relatively newer bios than the gaming 3 which may have been sat in suppliers stock since release.

stulid · 7 Jun 2017 at 09:29

I would go for Gigabyte for the support, as you now know you can get them to flash the BIOS if it needs be.

But I would also imagine any stock on shelves would have a more recent BIOS on it to be compatible out of the box.

B1gbeard · 7 Jun 2017 at 09:38

stulid said:
I would go for Gigabyte for the support, as you now know you can get them to flash the BIOS if it needs be.

But I would also imagine any stock on shelves would have a more recent BIOS on it to be compatible out of the box.

That was my assumption but it cost us a lot of lost time as the PC was for my son to take back to uni. I've posted in the CS forum so hopefully someone can advise.

GIGA-Man · 7 Jun 2017 at 10:29

B1gbeard said:
That was my assumption but it cost us a lot of lost time as the PC was for my son to take back to uni. I've posted in the CS forum so hopefully someone can advise.

Hello B1gbeard,

We are so sorry about that, we didn't have the code for the CPU when we first built and shipped the boards. This meant some of the older boards (those first produced) may have an older BIOS revision that does not support Ryzen 5. All of the new B350 boards which have shipped out do have the latest BIOS on them, we will of course at our cost pick up and re-flash any boards with this issue if people are stuck.

Most of the older stock should have sold though by now but it is almost impossible for us to guaranty the board you buy will have the latest BIOS.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused by this we know it can be frustrating and do our best to support any one that has this problem.

B1gbeard · 7 Jun 2017 at 10:31

GIGA-Man said:
Hello B1gbeard,

We are so sorry about that, we didn't have the code for the CPU when we first built and shipped the boards. This meant some of the older boards (those first produced) may have an older BIOS revision that does not support Ryzen 5. All of the new B350 boards which have shipped out do have the latest BIOS on them, we will of course at our cost pick up and re-flash any boards with this issue if people are stuck.

Most of the older stock should have sold though by now but it is almost impossible for us to guaranty the board you buy will have the latest BIOS.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused by this we know it can be frustrating and do our best to support any one that has this problem.

OCUK flashed it in the end so it was all fine, just the time lost was a pain. Hopefully someone who has bought one of the boards recently with a 1600/1500 will chip in.

orbitalwalsh · 7 Jun 2017 at 10:50

Recommend going for the K5

sure your soon is going to push the boat more and Beta bios should it release soon- hoping that brings more features to the K5 to bring it in line with the Gaming 5/k7.

if cost is an issue Gaming K3- still an x370 chip but better VRM then b350 versions .

Plus im guessing your son would favour the looks of the x370 boards over the b350s haha.

ha, uni days! if hes in halls of residence for the first year with all bills included , tell him to start Mining !!! make up some extra cash for those huge bills ( went to uni 2 years before increase so i was lucky but mining never really was a thing back then)

docsonic · 8 Jun 2017 at 16:26

No issues with Asus Strix B350-f & 1600 here, everything worked out of the box. I was also a bit worried which is why I waited the extra two weeks for it to come into stock. In theory there should be no compatibility issues but as you found, that's not been the case for everyone.