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Should I install old bios for x470 upgrade for PCIe 4 support

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Hi,

 

I have Rog Strix x470 f gaming motherboard paired with 2700x and haven't updated bios since I bought (2018 dec).

Now I got a 3900x which is shown as compatible with motherboard in asus site and i have a PCIe4.0 ssd.

I was wondering if I can update to bios before they removed pcie4 support or trust in AMD and have latest bios which removed pcie4 support for x470 motherboards.

 

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shouldnt use old BIOS, you wont get performance fixes released in updates after that.

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9 minutes ago, plato.manchi said:

Hi,

 

I have Rog Strix x470 f gaming motherboard paired with 2700x and haven't updated bios since I bought (2018 dec).

Now I got a 3900x which is shown as compatible with motherboard in asus site and i have a PCIe4.0 ssd.

I was wondering if I can update to bios before they removed pcie4 support or trust in AMD and have latest bios which removed pcie4 support for x470 motherboards.

 

Do you have a device that your can copy from or to that could even saturate PCI-E NVME? Like another NVME drive or external 3.1 gen 2 device? If not benchmarks will be the only area you will see the improvement.

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47 minutes ago, ddennis002 said:

Do you have a device that your can copy from or to that could even saturate PCI-E NVME? Like another NVME drive or external 3.1 gen 2 device? If not benchmarks will be the only area you will see the improvement.

No, I'm a programmer and will always look for faster memory (disk) access to reduce compile times. But currently using the same ssd on 2700x with gen3 and I don't have any issues with speeds at this time. Just wondering if I have the hardware then why not use it to make it much faster ^_^ 

 

57 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

shouldnt use old BIOS, you wont get performance fixes released in updates after that.

Ah, ok, in that case I'll jsut use the latest :) Thanks

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