Tuesday, March 15th 2022
AMD Brings Official Ryzen 5000 Support to 300-series Chipset Motherboards Circa 2016
AMD announced that it is bringing official Ryzen 5000 "Zen 3" desktop processor support to the oldest of Socket AM4 motherboards out there, which are based on AMD 300-series chipset models—the X370, B350, and A320. The company is working with motherboard and pre-built gaming desktop OEMs to push UEFI firmware updates with support. In addition to Ryzen 5000, this would also add Ryzen 3000 and Ryzen 4000 "Zen 2" support across the board. Motherboard firmware updates that add Ryzen 5000 support will encapsulate AGESA V2 PI 1.2.0.7 microcode, so look for this AGESA version in the change-log of the firmware update. AMD expects that motherboard and pre-built vendors will start pushing these updates from May 2022.
30 Comments on AMD Brings Official Ryzen 5000 Support to 300-series Chipset Motherboards Circa 2016
‘Unsupported’ means exactly what the word means. It’s ‘not supported’ by MS. It doesn’t mean it won’t work. MS - or any other companies for what matters - cannot keep investing money on a product which stopped generating revenues ages ago.
Developing those new BIOS cost time and money - that’s probably why most of those bios are, and always will be, ‘beta’ BTW
now, I agree this is not nice. Our planet doesn’t have unlimited resources and we really must change our behaviour on this. But for now, that’s how business work.
Maybe some enterprising hacker can mod the BIOS, but I'm not holding my breath.
Of course, someone will find something wrong with this.
But alas, after a lot of pressure (both by the comunity and competion from Intel making it a better deal to go Alder Lake instead of buying a new board to be able to stay AMD) they finally delivered.
Asus only offers bios support for 3 years
Is amd paying manufactures for bios upgrades now ?