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
 
IT IS ALREADY HAPPENING!!! :eek:
https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X370 Pro4/index.de.asp#CPU

ASRock has just released a BIOS update with Ryzen 5000 series support from 5600X to 5950X for the X370 Pro4.
I assume other MB vendors will drop BIOS updates for Ryzen 5000 series soon!

[ASRock] X370 BIOS Update (1/12/2022)
X370 Pro4 BIOS-7.10.
1. Update AGESA for support Renoir and Vermeer CPU.
2. Remove Bristol Ridge CPU support.
*ASRock do NOT recommend updating this BIOS if Pinnacle, Raven, Summit or Bristol Ridge CPU is being used on your system.
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True and going from a 1600 CPU on a B350 board to something like a 5600X or even the upcoming 5800X3D would be such a big improvement that I think some people will be shocked :)
For Ryzen 1000 users wanting to upgrade, just remember that the 5800X (105W) and higher don't come with a CPU cooler and they need better cooling than the stock 65W 1600/1700 coolers provides.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
if you got a Pinnacle, Raven, Summit or Bristol Ridge CPU do you flash bios update first then shutdown and change cpu or if you update bios and dont swap the cpu the board wont fire up and becomes useless?
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I think it’s their way of saying if you update the BIOS to support the Ryzen 5000 series with for example a Ryzen 1600/2600 CPU, you will not be able to boot up again.

The X370 Pro4 in this case after the update will only support Matisse, Renoir, Vermeer and Cezanne CPU’s.
Ryzen 3000 Desktop (Matisse): https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/cores/matisse
Ryzen 4000 Mobile/APUs (Renoir): https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/cores/renoir
Ryzen 5000 Desktop (Vermeer): https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/cores/vermeer
Ryzen 5000 Mobile/APUs (Cezanne): https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/cores/cezanne

That reminds me, people selling updated Ryzen 5000 B350/X370 boards better state BIOS info or confusion will happen when buyer can’t boot up using an older CPU.
 
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ASRock just released several Beta BIOS updates for the X370 boards with Ryzen 5000 support!
https://twitter.com/redditASRock/status/1491088184037736449
Note: Requires BIOS to be updated to v7.00 before updating to this new version.
Note: BIOS v7.03 does not support Bristol Ridge CPU’s so do not update with such CPU.

X370 motherboards now with Ryzen 5000 support (click links):
Fatal1ty X370 Gaming K4
Fatal1ty X370 Gaming X
Fatal1ty X370 Professional Gaming
X370 Killer SLI
X370 Killer SLI/ac
X370 Pro4 (BIOS v7.10)
 
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