AMD Doesn’t Want Motherboard Makers Enabling Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop CPU Support on X370 Boards

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It appears that AMD is actively preventing manufacturers from releasing BIOSes that allow Ryzen 5000 Series “Vermeer” desktop processors to operate on older X370 motherboards. This is according to a support email shared on the Hardwareluxx forums, which includes a statement from an ASRock representative claiming that AMD had warned them against providing such BIOSes. AMD’s official Socket AM4 Motherboard Chipset Solutions chart shows that X370 was never meant to include support for Ryzen 5000 Series processors, but as noted in Wccftech’s coverage, red team did previously state that the AM4 socket would be supported until 2020—the same year that Vermeer launched...

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[Dan_D]

It should really be left up to motherboard manufacturers. Some X370 motherboards are good enough to handle the 5000 series CPU's. Of course, many aren't, but that's another matter. That being said, probably the vast majority of these boards will have issues with insufficient flash ROM capacity to support the additional microcode.

 

[Zarathustra]

It should really be left up to motherboard manufacturers. Some X370 motherboards are good enough to handle the 5000 series CPU's. Of course, many aren't, but that's another matter. That being said, probably the vast majority of these boards will have issues with insufficient flash ROM capacity to support the additional microcode.

I'm torn on this.

I like flexibility, but at the same time I can see where AMD wants to control the experience a little bit, because when they haven't in the past it has come back to bite them in the ***. You know, someone who doesn't know what they are doing buying the cheapest FreeSync monitor on the market, and then when it predictably is crap, going out an publicly declaring all FreeSync to be crap, when there actually are good FreeSync screens, while Nvidia didn't have this problem because they put more controls on what monitor vendors could do with the technology.

You can just imagine a bunch of kids who don't know **** about **** putting the fanciest latest CPU in a ****ty old motherboard that has problems, and then making a stink about how much AMD's fancy new CPU sucks when it predictably has problems. People hear these complaints enough, even if they are made by idiots, they start to believe it.

the devil is always in the details, but the mass consumption public can't seem to be bothered by details. They just want simple answers.