X370 K7 Bios Update to F40 When?

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When do you expect a bios update to F40 for the X370 K7 board.

Gigabyte website says before the end of the month, I'm hearing rumours of no support because the bios chip isn't BIG enough!.

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"GIGABYTE Announces BIOS Updates For Next Gen. AMD Ryzen CPUs

Easily Update The BIOS To Fully Support AMD Ryzen™ CPUs

2019/05/17
Taipei, Taiwan, May 17th, 2019 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, has released BIOS updates for X470 and B450 AMD motherboards. With a simple update of the BIOS, users will get full support for next gen. AMD Ryzen™ processors. BIOS updates for the X370 and B350 AMD motherboards will be released before the end of the month."
 
Ad_Augendae said:
@GIGA-Man
When do you expect a bios update to F40 for the X370 K7 board.

Gigabyte website says before the end of the month, I'm hearing rumours of no support because the bios chip isn't BIG enough!.

3:50

"GIGABYTE Announces BIOS Updates For Next Gen. AMD Ryzen CPUs

Easily Update The BIOS To Fully Support AMD Ryzen™ CPUs

2019/05/17
Taipei, Taiwan, May 17th, 2019 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, has released BIOS updates for X470 and B450 AMD motherboards. With a simple update of the BIOS, users will get full support for next gen. AMD Ryzen™ processors. BIOS updates for the X370 and B350 AMD motherboards will be released before the end of the month."
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Im hearing a lot of things that are saying there will be an alternative bios for boards with a bios chip too small, basically, only flash this bios if you want to use 3rd edition RyZen, your first edition and possibly 2nd edition Ryzen will no longer work, as for actual support, theres no reason where VRM's are concerned for any board to run the new 3000 RyZen's, the TDP is the same as the previous chips, the problem comes when you start to overclock them.
 
I think I should be able to make a choice though, I'm fully aware that trying to run anything bigger than an 8 core 16 thread CPU overclocked would be a bad choice for this board. I guess Gigabyte don't need another load of idiots moaning at them due to lack of understanding which is a shame.
For me an 8 core 16 thread upgrade would be perfect if the rumours of single core performance are indeed true plus an increase of 500MB all core.
 
F40 Is Up for the K7...............


Update AGESA 1.0.0.2 for 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ CPU full support

Note:
1. If you are using Q-Flash Utility to update BIOS, make sure you have updated BIOS to F31 before F40.
2. Before update BIOS to F40, you have to install EC FW Update Tool (B19.0517.1 or later version) to avoid 4DIMM DDR compatibility on 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ CPU.
3. Due to BIOS ROM size limited, no Bristol Ridge APU support

erm, don't get too excited yet the link isn't live
 
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With a 2700, anyone with a K7, intrigue on your exp with F40, for me if I set the CPU multi it fails to post, if i remember correctly, i had the same issue with F22.
 
orbitalwalsh said:
did you flash it for the purpose of using ryzen 3*** cpus ?

if not might be worth flashing back to previous
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Thats the ideal depending of reviews, and it may not even be a issue with a 3xxx CPU. Still i like to prep it having BIOS already flashed or see if anything changed since Jan (noticed CBS menu slightly different and the PCI Express Gen 4 option is there, although im assuming that will be removed)

One of the nice parts of having a dual BIOS, 1 thats stable, another to fiddle.
 
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