Friday, May 13th 2022
MSI Announces Full AMD 300-Series Motherboard Compatibility for Zen 3
MSI today announced that its full 300-series motherboard lineup, which includes A320, B350 and X370 chipset-based motherboards, now support AMD's latest Zen 3 CPUs in the Ryzen 5000 series. The full support will be backed into BIOSes developed under the latest AMD AGESA COMBO PI V2 1.2.0.7 BIOS, which MSI expect to rollout for its 300-series motherboards from the middle of May this year.
This announcement from MSI builds upon AMD's own promises of research into adding support for more recent Ryzen architectures towards even the beginning steps in its AM4 ecosystem. In theory, users rocking older motherboards can now take advantage of AMD's latest developments in power, performance, and core density, deeply increasing - and confirming - the value proposition of AMD's AM4 platform. Alongside the announcement, MSI has also pledged to launch a fix for fTPM-based stuttering issues present in 400-series and 500-series AM4 motherboards towards June.
This announcement from MSI builds upon AMD's own promises of research into adding support for more recent Ryzen architectures towards even the beginning steps in its AM4 ecosystem. In theory, users rocking older motherboards can now take advantage of AMD's latest developments in power, performance, and core density, deeply increasing - and confirming - the value proposition of AMD's AM4 platform. Alongside the announcement, MSI has also pledged to launch a fix for fTPM-based stuttering issues present in 400-series and 500-series AM4 motherboards towards June.
14 Comments on MSI Announces Full AMD 300-Series Motherboard Compatibility for Zen 3
I have a 3600 though...I wonder if that intermittent performance stuttering issue affects me, for what I read in this article is if one is using Win11 (?) I have W10...
Also suttering issue can also happens on Windows 10 if you use fTPM with an older Agesa version. (Intermittent System Stutter Experienced with fTPM Enabled on Windows® 10 and 11 | AMD)
Even my midrange gigabyte AX370 has full support for a 5950x and the 5800x3d now - it's insane.
I have no reason to actually upgrade the board now, since it's a fantastic fallback if my mobo dies.
This delay Is understandable to me: those who wanted to upgrade to the greatest and latest went for a new board. Others now have the option to upgrade saving some money.
After all for MSI, investing in R&D to support new CPUs on an old chipset is basically money lost… (I know there’s not much R&D involved but developing a new BIOS, releasing it and supporting it is still some money!)
Oh, and I still remember users on this very forum questioning me for expecting Zen3 on A320 because ‘those boards are not fit for purpose’.
When the VRM's are warmed up (60~70 degrees) the system could fully crash in a instant during high cpu load (blackscreen and power button not responding) while with cold VRM's the problem wasn't there at all. Luckly MSI gives 3 years of warranty :)
Now my first generation AM4 motherboards MSI B350 Tomahawk is running this cpu but on purpose I limited it to 45W to avoid frying the VRM's while I wait on MSI to repair/replace/refund the MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX :roll:
You sure as heck dont sort that out by chipset
MSI had some really, really terrible designs (I just sold off my MSI b450 that didnt even have a heatsink on its VRM's) - but it's ridiculous to say B450 is the problem
The B450 Tomahawk MAX is an example since I own this board. The board was praised on the internet as a good board with fine VRM's with a heatsink. It should run the 5900x on stock fine.
If you google with "B450 5900x backscreen" you will see it happens quite often to the B450 Tomahawk (MAX). If you google with X470 5900x blackscreen you will see it is often a MSI X470 Gaming Plus.
When you compare the VRM designs you will see it is using the same controller (RT8894A) and mofsets (4C029N).
Or you can use the online version where you can upload the bios file: kolos.github.io/ryzen-smu-checker/
Thank you!