Uncover how to present sure your motherboard is ready for AMD Zen 3

When that you just might want to earn been ready anxiously for weeks to tumble AMD’s modern Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 into your 500-series motherboard, the time is virtually upon us.

You shall be in a position to favor to attain a few things to prepare your 500-series motherboard first, though. AMD legit acknowledged for any 500-series motherboard to boot a brand modern Zen 3 chip, it’ll favor to earn a UEFI/BIOS that contains an AMD AGESA BIOS numbered 1.0.8.0 or bigger.

You would head over to your motherboard maker’s net plan and search the red meat up section for the BIOS for your board. To illustrate, for this Asus High X570P, we chanced on that Asus within the intervening time has a BIOS/UEFI version of 2606 on its net plan that became as soon as released in August of 2019. The descriptions for the BIOS/UEFI demonstrate that it contains AMD AGESA version 1.0.8.0. To install it, we would download the file, decompress the file onto a USB stick, and then reboot into the BIOS.

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From there we would express the built-in flash BIOS tool to interchange to the BIOS from the USB stick. We’re no longer going to get into too worthy granular element, because the manner does vary from among vendors. Some also offer completely different discover how to interchange a BIOS, along side OS-primarily primarily based mostly updaters.

With the 1.0.8.0 AGESA assign in, AMD acknowledged the board will nicely boot a Zen 3 / Ryzen 5000 chip. But the 1.0.8.0 excellent permits the board to POST the modern CPU. On November 5, you might want to soundless take a look at your motherboard dealer’s plan all every other time for a BIOS that contains the 1.1.8.0 AGESA, which would perchance incorporate more optimized capabilities for the Zen 3 chip.

And yes, we attain think it’s a ways strongly urged that you just flee the newest AGESA to extract potentially the most performance from the modern CPU.

What about AMD 400-series customers?

All this advice applies to those with 500-series motherboards. For of us soundless the usage of older 400-series motherboards, you are going to favor to wait a few months more. AMD officers acknowledged BIOS updates for older motherboard customers are within the intervening time in construction by board makers. You in all likelihood shouldn’t quiz red meat up till January of 2021.

One of founding fathers of hardcore tech reporting, Gordon has been covering PCs and parts since 1998.