New AMD AGESA Firmware Reportedly Disables Cores on Some Ryzen 5 7600X CPUs

[Tsing]

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X users may want to avoid updating to the new AGESA firmware that was recently released. According to a recent tweet from hardware leaker chi11eddog, AGESA 1.0.0.4 (SMU 84.79.204) will disable cores on some Ryzen 5 7600X processors, resulting in decreased performance. MSI and ASRock have already removed the firmware from their website, it's said.

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[Grimlakin]

Oh wow... that's one for anyone with a 7600 for sure not to apply.

Reminds me of when Nvidia released a driver update that blue screened PC's on reboots. It was some years ago but I remember helping my friend roll back to an earlier shadowcopy version he had with windows recovery.

 

[Zarathustra]

Uh.

I'd be livid.

I mean, sure, mistakes happen, but they had better fix it, and fast.

 

[Brent_Justice]

Only 5 Cores For You!

 

[Brian_B]

Oh wow... that's one for anyone with a 7600 for sure not to apply.

Reminds me of when Nvidia released a driver update that blue screened PC's on reboots. It was some years ago but I remember helping my friend roll back to an earlier shadowcopy version he had with windows recovery.

There for a while it seemed like it was every other nVidia driver that would just cause my computer to reboot. I still have the last 300 series driver on my computer stashed away somewhere as that one was a proven reliable one for me for a long time.