Thursday, August 3rd 2023

AMD Readying AGESA 1.0.0.7c for AM5 Motherboards

According to a post by @g01d3nm4ng0 on Twitter/X, we now know that AMD is readying yet another AGESA update for AM5 motherboards. The new version is, based on information from our own sources, a minor update to the current version. As such, AMD will be moving from 1.0.0.7b to 1.0.0.7c. @g01d3nm4ng0 didn't reveal any details of the new AGESA apart from the screenshot below, but we asked around and managed to find out what the new AESA addresses.

The update is specifically for those with Samsung DDR5 memory in their AM5 motherboards and it addresses multiple memory related stability issues. We weren't given the full details as to what those are, but there have been some reports about there being issues specifically with Samsung DDR5 memory in some AM5 boards and hopefully this will solve all those problems. We don't have a release time frame for the updated AGESA, but with 1.0.0.7b barely out the door, it might take a few weeks before this one makes it through all the internal testing at the motherboard makers.
Source: @g01d3nm4ng0 on Twitter/X
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56 Comments on AMD Readying AGESA 1.0.0.7c for AM5 Motherboards

#51
mkdr
bugAs usual, if your system is already stable, don't mess with it.
100% wrong for AGESA. it may be true for Intel systems, but seen how AGESA worked over the years. you totally should always update if a new AGESA is out.
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#52
A Computer Guy
mkdr100% wrong for AGESA. it may be true for Intel systems, but seen how AGESA worked over the years. you totally yould always update if a new AGESA is out.
It seems the downside of AM4 as a long lived socket is the inability to keep the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" strategy when in comes to UEFI/BIOS updates from the many bugs and regressions that occurred over time. There is no way or its too complicated for AMD/Board Vendors to fork AGESA for each Chipset/CPU generation that needs to be supported so we get an endless train of updates with a higher possibility of regressions occurring as new Chipsets and CPU's are released.

Hopefully AM5 will be an improvement and the QA will be tighter from AMD and board venders this time around although the recent issue with the exploding CPU's doesn't give me the warm and fuzzy feeling I was hoping for.
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#53
bug
mkdr100% wrong for AGESA. it may be true for Intel systems, but seen how AGESA worked over the years. you totally should always update if a new AGESA is out.
What good would that do, if your system is stable to begin with?
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#55
mkdr
trparkyNow there's talk about AGESA v1.0.0.8 out soon with a fix for AMD: CVE-2023-20569 Return Address Predictor.
I totally DONT want that thing ever to touch my board. No benchmarks so far. If you cant disable the mitigation, I dont want it to be on my board. What a mess, if you are forced to use it if newer AGESA are needed and you cant disable the mitigations.
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#56
trparky
mkdrI totally DONT want that thing ever to touch my board. No benchmarks so far. If you cant disable the mitigation, I dont want it to be on my board. What a mess, if you are forced to use it if newer AGESA are needed and you cant disable the mitigations.
I'm sure that we'll soon have benchmarks.
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