Soldato
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my 3900x has shipped. Only ordered this morning. First upgrade in 8 years 

They have an advertisement here so i'm guessing it still applies.
Cool, I'll do that, thanks!Seems this has not being setup on our systems, I’m flying to Germany now so I’ll get the office to look into it I know we have these codes however as I spotted them tonight and wondered what they were for lol.
Drop a message in CS and they send codes out to you just means CS shall be very busy.
could you sort some motherboards compatible out ram thats compatible budget and high end. to suit the new cpus. what needs flashing what can be flashed without cpus etc.
what motherboards work well with new amd cpus. basically older boards . there is many and its not totally clear what works with what cpu.vrms/other issues.
what memory is best to use with said new AMD cpus. budget choice and other memory.
what older boards need to be bios flashed and need a cpu or can be flashed without needing a cpu to use. there are many different factors that are not clear.
I've found this spreadsheet pretty useful when trying to work this stuff out:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...IVNyMatydkpFA/htmlview?sle=true#gid=639584818
Gives VRM info and whether it can push the right amps to run each chip at stock / overclocked.
Any DDR4 will work in the boards, but DDR3600 seems to be the most recommended from what I've seen.
Best tool I've found to find good RAM is this:
https://benzhaomin.github.io/bdiefinder/
(Obviously buy through the overclockers links though)
Basically anything older than X570 needs a BIOS flash before the Ryzen 3000 chips will work, some people are buying budget Athlon's just to use them to flash bios. Some motherboards will let you flash the BIOS without the CPU, they're marked on the spreadsheet above with "BIOS Flashback (w/o CPU)"
cheers will have a look through it. i know some msi boards you can update the bios update with no cpu. like the MSI B450 Carbon Pro AC and the B450 Tomahawk .
some companies are updating the bios on older boards and doing bundles maybe ocuk can do that.
Hi, wheres all the bundles like 3600 with ram and board with discount?
^^^ prices just rise lol
CPU prices are unchanged and shall be held for the short term but supply is extremely tight.