AMD is looking at adding Ryzen 5000 series support for B350/X370 motherboards!

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Some potential exciting news for 1st gen Ryzen 300 motherboard owners as during an interview with AMD's David McAfee on Tom‘s Hardware, he talks about how AMD is looking at options to have Ryzen 5000 CPU’s support for 300 series motherboards.
No dates has been given but if this ends up being implemented, you could probably upgrade from a B350 with a 1600 CPU to a 5800X3D (fastest upcoming gaming CPU according to AMD), which would offer one heck of a performance jump!

As David McAfee puts it, “We want to try to do the right thing. So we're still working through it"
Interview: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-exploring-ryzen-5000-support-on-300-series
 
FredFlint said:
Hope this happens but not holding my breath. Would be an easy last upgrade.
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Well they've enabled it for A320 boards which are/were cheaper and worse.

Here's a vid just uploaded of a nutter putting a 5950X on an ASUS A320-K (£40 board) and running it at 4000MHz IF/RAM with the official ASUS BIOS that was updated in Nov '21.

 
Journey said:
Well ASUS and Gigabyte have added 5xxx support to their A320 boards... so I mean why not with the B350/X370. My old X370 Taichi already happily works with a 5800X sat in it.
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They are still manufacturing those A320 boards for OEMs though which is why they received an update while X370 and B350 are not in production and have been discontinued.
 
Journey said:
Well they've enabled it for A320 boards which are/were cheaper and worse.

Here's a vid just uploaded of a nutter putting a 5950X on an ASUS A320-K (£40 board) and running it at 4000MHz IF/RAM with the official ASUS BIOS that was updated in Nov '21.

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I have seen that, if my mobo gets updated, think i will get a 5900X or 5950X.
 
Speaking of bad decisions, AMD's decision to ban PCIe 4.0 from 300 and 400 series (at least for the x16 GPU shoot which comes direct from the CPU) now means that for DIY the new Navi 24 with their x4 PCIe 4.0 connection will perform even worse. Navi 24 ist mostly a joke anyhow.
 
FredFlint said:
I have seen that, if my mobo gets updated, think i will get a 5900X or 5950X.
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I guess it may take sometime for it to become a reality for most/many of the boards, it would be in the interest of AMD however, especially as they have a huge installed user base on AM4 now and the 2017/18 era people might love a new CPU in 2022.
 
KompuKare said:
Speaking of bad decisions, AMD's decision to ban PCIe 4.0 from 300 and 400 series (at least for the x16 GPU shoot which comes direct from the CPU) now means that for DIY the new Navi 24 with their x4 PCIe 4.0 connection will perform even worse. Navi 24 ist mostly a joke anyhow.
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They should have just made it as a toggle option with the default set to 3.0 then that way only users that likely know what they are doing would be able to enable 4.0 and see how it performed on their boards.

I'd agree that going with 4.0 x4 for the 6500XT seems like a really odd decision given that most users targeting the card are unlikely to have expensive setups that support pcie 4.0 so will end up hamstrung on what will be the equivalent in bandwidth of pcie 1.0 x16.
 
Joxeon said:
I'd agree that going with 4.0 x4 for the 6500XT seems like a really odd decision given that most users targeting the card are unlikely to have expensive setups that support pcie 4.0 so will end up hamstrung on what will be the equivalent in bandwidth of pcie 1.0 x16.
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It's propably meant at least as much for OEMs than retail buyers:
Needing to wire only four PCIe lanes makes motherboard simpler and hence cheaper.
 
broona said:
Hopefully this happens, be nice to think I can upgrade my son's 3600 to a 5xxx chip on his old Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming 3 when needs be.
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Yes from a recycling and reuse perspective it is a really great idea, there is far too much e-waste on this planet already, if people can continue making a system more useful for longer then that is great for everyone. The Gaming-3 was very popular low end first Gen board, so I'd hope they offer it sooner rather than later for you. :)
 
Cross flashing is risky with no back-up BIOS, and no BIOS flashback on the older boards. It's fine for some one like me with a dedicated SPI hardware flashing tool, where if something goes wrong you can flash it using that. The hardware needs to be like for like with regards to layout and componentry or you can have all sorts of issues, but yes it is possible.
 
It would be good if they did this but they are very late to the party with it.

AMD dropping 300 series support for ZEN3 always left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. Given that most of the people with 300 series motherboards were the early adopters who had to live with many of the odd initial 'quirks' of the platform. It would have been a nice thankyou of AMD to let us have a ZEN CPU as a drop in upgrade as a thankyou for supporting them during the early days and giving their marketshare boost some momentum in those early days.
 
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