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hinch on 07 May 2020
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Bofferbrauer2 said:
Captain_Yuri said:

Welp, here comes the socket fragmentation from AMD with AM4. It seems that the older motherboards such as the X370/X470 will NOT be compatible with the upcoming Zen 3 CPUs!

https://www.techpowerup.com/266710/amd-b550-chipset-detailed-its-ready-for-zen-3-older-am4-motherboards-not-compatible

I think that's just what the boards have to support. After all, most A320 boards seem to support Zen 2 chips just fine, and pretty much all B350 and X370 do, despite the slide saying they don't.

In other words, you're probably fine with a B450/X470. First Gen boards have pretty small ROMs which might run into problems to fit the firmware for the new chips (which already created some problems with Zen 2 chips on cheaper models), but the second gen is probably fine. It might just take a while until the boards get an update with Zen 4000 support.

Pretty bummed at this at this but not surprised. Looking more like I'm going to have to get a B550 board+new CPU.

Hoping Gigabyte will update my board though so I can put more money towards GPU and other nice things :P