AMD Brings Official Ryzen 5000 Support to 300-series Chipset Motherboards Circa 2016

[Icon Charlie]

I am NOT a Lisa Su Fan at all as she repeatedly pulling this crap during her tenure. There is nothing nice about this at all. I already knew back then when I was using Newer AMD CPU's could run on on my X370 motherboard. They did this to absolutely make sure they could sell the 500 series of chipsets. Now that the newer series is coming close AMD is NOW giving the option so they can continue to sell their 500 series of CPU's.

This is the same nonsense going on with the 5800X3D. This is not out of their kindness of their hearts. IMHO they are making sure that you purchase the 5800X3d at a certain performance level. so it will not won't cannibalize 500 and 600 series CPU's in the near future.

This is also the same nonsense saying that you can't run windows 7 on newer hardware or Micro$haft's 2.0TPM. This pigeon holed performance unless you have to pay for something else. I've been Running Windows 7 for many years on so called unsupportable hardware. Planned performance obsolescence in order to force people to buy the new "shiny" is total BS.

In ending AMD is NOT the good guy for the average person. They are and at times become worse than their competition. This is not done out of the Kindness of the Hearts of AMD.

But it is telling that IMHO there are issues that are arising against Intel which IMHO is one of decisions they are doing this.

 

[tony359]

There is no good guy here. This is business. They need to sell stuff. Someone just does that in a less greedy way.
‘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.

 

[imrazor]

I sincerely doubt Dell will allow me to upgrade to Ryzen 5000 in my old Inspiron 5675. The old 1700 it currently sports isn't too bad, even by modern standards, and can even overclock via software. But Dell doesn't want me to just upgrade the old system. They want me to buy a brand new Dell PC so they can squeeze as many dollars out of me as possible. Without a profit motive, Dell has no reason to do this.

Maybe some enterprising hacker can mod the BIOS, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Luminescent]

Thanks AMD, free upgrade.
Of course, someone will find something wrong with this.

 

[trsttte]

Thanks AMD, free upgrade.
Of course, someone will find something wrong with this.

What's wrong is that it took them this long (about 1 year and 4 months) to fulfil the long term support promise from way back when the first Ryzen and AM4 was launched (and the fact it was still AM4 obviously doesn't count, that doesn't mean anything if support is locked away).

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.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Asus only offers bios support for 3 years
Is amd paying manufactures for bios upgrades now ?