Non-MAX Versions of MSI’s B450 and X470 Motherboards Will Support Zen 3 CPUs Despite 16 MB ROM “Limitation”

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If you own an MSI B450 or X470 motherboard, you should be all set for AMD’s Zen 3-based processors. During the latest episode of MSI Insider, Eric Van Beurden and Michiel Berkhout confirmed that Ryzen 4000 support would not be exclusive to its “MAX” variants, which offer a bigger, 32 MB flash memory chip for larger BIOS updates. Owners of the original SKUs should be able to upgrade to Zen 3 just fine – although there are a few caveats they should keep in mind.









“With our MAX motherboards, this is no problem at all, but if you have some other motherboard, it will be quite tricky because most of them only have a 16 MB BIOS,” warned Van Beurden. “You will drop some support for CPUs.”



“And also, you’ll have a toned-down version of the BIOS, so instead of the full Click BIOS, we have Click BIOS Lite...

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The MAX boards explicitly exist to guarantee Zen2's working out of the box, without having to flash a Working™ BIOS onto them through the Flashback USB port, if it exists at all.