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Ryzen 5000 Series and 500 Series Motherboards

meusli

meusli

meusli

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Hello,


I am building a PC for someone from scratch and hopefully tonight I will get my hands on the new Ryzen 5. My question is, if I am building this from scratch will I have to flash the motherboard bios before it accepts the new chip or are the 500 boards automatically compatible?


Cheers
 
varkanoid said:
Yeah but I`m thinking of the 6xxx series graphics card it needs a x570 motherboard for all the bells and whistles. Wondering whether to get the Gigabyte Aorus ITX but its £200.
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it needs a 5xx series motherboard, so b550 is fine. x570 seems a bit of a waste for MATX
 
kohlditz said:
it needs a 5xx series motherboard, so b550 is fine. x570 seems a bit of a waste for MATX
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From what I have read and the AMD slides on the release day it needs an X570 for SAM and RAGE:mad:

If I`m going to spend that much may as well take advantage of all the bells and whistles :)
You dont get SAM and Rage Mode with a B550 Motherboard or less.

Plus my case is mATX or ITX and I dont want to change it.
 
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varkanoid said:
From what I have read and the AMD slides on the release day it needs an X570 for SAM and RAGE:mad:

If I`m going to spend that much may as well take advantage of all the bells and whistles :)
You dont get SAM and Rage Mode with a B550 Motherboard or less.

Plus my case is mATX or ITX and I dont want to change it.
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https://youtu.be/oHpgu-cTjyM?t=756 - they explicitly state 500 series motherboards for SAM which is the main uplift; so that would be x570, b550 & a520 - but wait for reviews anyway :D (the actual requirement will actually be PCIE4.0, it's a windows feature)

the principle point to getting a X570 would be the extra PCIE4.0 lanes, on B550 you'll get 1 * 16 PCIE4.0 for a GPU and 1 * 4 PCIE4.0 for NVMe; the rest are PCIE3.0; but given the size constraints on the board and your case there's not such a compelling reason to pick x570. FWIW I have a B550 MATX board in a MATX case.
 
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Thanks for the help guys. I managed to snag a processor in my basket but was unable to make a purchase due to the site being down. Worst experience ever in trying to buy something thats in my basket and needed a lie down after. Hopefully I will have a pre flashed motherboard by the time I get the CPU. Not holding my breath though.
 
kohlditz said:
https://youtu.be/oHpgu-cTjyM?t=756 - they explicitly state 500 series motherboards for SAM which is the main uplift; so that would be x570, b550 & a520 - but wait for reviews anyway :D (the actual requirement will actually be PCIE4.0, it's a windows feature)

the principle point to getting a X570 would be the extra PCIE4.0 lanes, on B550 you'll get 1 * 16 PCIE4.0 for a GPU and 1 * 4 PCIE4.0 for NVMe; the rest are PCIE3.0; but given the size constraints on the board and your case there's not such a compelling reason to pick x570. FWIW I have a B550 MATX board in a MATX case.
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It does seem to be 500 series motherboards just read conflicting comments from later websites saying X570. Never mind. Actually found somewhere selling bundles who will also flash the bios for you.
 
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