Friday, October 25th 2019
BIOSTAR Extends Ryzen 9 3950X Support to Even its A320 Chipset Motherboards
On a charm offensive, motherboard maker BIOSTAR revealed that it will extend support for the upcoming 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X even to its cheapest motherboards based on AMD's entry-level A320 chipset. Support for the processor will be added through a UEFI firmware update that should go live on the company website soon, and downloadable from the support section of each motherboard's product page. BIOSTAR's list of motherboards for the 3950X includes almost its entire socket AM4 motherboard lineup, spanning the A320, B350, X370, B450, X470, and X570 chipsets. A spokesperson for BIOSTAR confirmed to us that this wasn't a typo on the company website.
52 Comments on BIOSTAR Extends Ryzen 9 3950X Support to Even its A320 Chipset Motherboards
I worked in pharma, water utility, and AWS... not medical and 'million dollar microscopes'. But now that you mention it, I do recall a PC hooked up to an MRI machine...... sporting a Core2 duo. Let's not talk fringe BS to make a point for the majority, please.
Anyway, the point that seems to be getting lost here is that an most A320 based boards will need, at minimum, a significant amount of airflow over its weak power delivery to support this CPU at full tilt. Again, its asinine to buy this CPU and not utilize (again, not use) it either by running shit that doesn't need 16c/32t (a microscope, LOL) or by the board which throttles it.
Price is one thing, quality is another and both either sell or leave a piece on the shelf. $50 for a basic, no-frills piece isn't bad at all as long as it does the job and keeps working, however there are limits to what's it's capable of, being it's a budget piece that is.
Drop a 3950x in and I'm sure you'll quickly discover these limitations, at the additional cost of a 3950x chip and hope that's all the additional cost paid.....
RAM sticks, drives, GPU, PSU - May cost you the entire build over trying to stuff a top of the line CPU in said budget board.
I see the price of a waterblock just went up too.
BTW you still have $50 waterblocks perfectly acceptable for running your 2K chip with - Again with the point without a point. Bullsh!t! Doesn't mean it will work (For long) with a 3950x either, ran at stock or however else.
Not a case of attitude because my attitude has no bearing on the manufacturing process of anything except in a case of actually being the one(s) involved with it's creation.
It is what it is, nothing posted here is gonna change that.
BTW..... Since you act like a Biostar rep, I want my old Biostar TA990FXE replaced with a working unit please.
(Complaint)
Wasn't even 6 months old and all it took to kill it was testing a defective stick of RAM. Same said stick was then tested in my Asus CHV-Z to be sure and it was like "Dude, you've got a bad stick of RAM" and laughed but the Biostar just coudn't handle that so it died.
It was also at the time the cheapest FX-990 board around and only reason I got it was due to budget at the time.... And just to give the name a chance. Used it as a daily with a FX-8320 and that's really about it.... Until it choked on a simply defective stick of RAM and nothing else (End/Complaint).
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Guys, if you pick one up you can try a 3950x in it if you want - It may actually live, maybe not but I do know one thing as an absolute.
Won't be me trying it.
~The end