Wednesday, May 27th 2020
MSI Confirms "Zen 3" Support on its AMD 400-series Chipset Motherboards with 16MB ROMs
MSI confirmed that AMD's "Zen 3" processor support will be added to the company's AMD 400-series chipset motherboards, including the non-MAX SKUs that only have 16 MB EEPROM chips. Marketing Director Eric van Beurden in an MSI Insider video presentation confirmed that with the non-MAX motherboards, "Zen 3" support will be added as AMD planned to go about doing so (i.e. add "Zen 3" support by cutting out support for older processors and slimming down the UEFI setup program down to the GSE Click BIOS program, which may not correspond with your motherboard's original feature-set). On the other hand, the MAX SKUs, with their 32 MB EEPROMs will receive "Zen 3" support painlessly, meaning that the board may retain support for some, if not all, older processor generations, and retain their original feature-rich UEFI setup programs.
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16 Comments on MSI Confirms "Zen 3" Support on its AMD 400-series Chipset Motherboards with 16MB ROMs
Overall, the MAX boards are well positioned to receive full featured updates.
AGESA is renamed to v2.0 for the first time, instead of restarting under a different name for every generation, but I doubt they'll put in the effort to keep two concurrent BIOS lines running. Not even Gigabyte keeps supporting EOL boards for so long. It's a one-way decision that you can make to upgrade.
Hopefully the jump from a 2600 to a 4600 (or whatever it will be called) will be nice.