With the new announcement of ryzen 9 will I need it a x570 motherboard because I have x470

[Pro-AMD]

With the new announcement of ryzen 9 will I need it an x570 motherboard because I have x470

if not what would I be Limited

[Skiiwee29]

well there is no new announcement yet sooooo, not sure where you're reading from since nothing is official, just community speculation. 

[Firewrath9]

No, ASRock and ASUS already launched Ryzen 3000 compat bioses

[Jurrunio]

in theory you dont have to change the board, but you might want to.

[Stormseeker9]

5 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

No, ASRock and ASUS already launched Ryzen 3000 compat bioses

MSI will also be supporting on their B450/X470 boards (maybe older gen as well but didn’t look into that)

[GoldenLag]

BIOS compatibility is allready announched. So all you will have to do is update the BIOS with the old CPU. 

 

You will lack some features that will only be present on X570 though.

[mariushm]

AMD has promised they will release processors for socket AM4 at least until 2020, and that will include this new generation of Ryzen processors.

 

The extra features the new series has and the new power requirements  are not substantial enough to make the new processors impossible to work on old motherboards.

It depends on the motherboard manufacturer if they ADD support for this new series in their current motherboards. 

Some lower end (budget) motherboards may have some sections that are... let's say built with just enough tolerance to work perfectly fine with the previous series, but that tiny tolerance may no longer be up to par for the new series, which may require finer control or better quality from those "sections". In such cases, the motherboard maker may prefer to refuse to push a bios update, to reduce the risk of receiving such motherboards to service because they don't work well with the new series of processors. 

 

There's no reason the new processors won't work fine in current motherboards... but some features may work at slower speed. For example, the new series knows pci-e 4.0, which has higher speeds, but on old motherboards it will work in the "backwards compatible" and current standard, pci-e 3.0 ... so you'll simply not benefit from the double speed of pci-e 4.0 (not that there are currently any video cards or cards that work on pci-e 4.0)

 

 

[Rigg]

What board do you have?

 

Asus and Msi have confirmed Zen 2 support. A list of supported models is only a google search away. Expect gigabyte and AsRock to follow suit. While they will support Ryzen 3000 CPUs it does not mean they will support all of them. The 12 core should be fine with Zen2's much improved power efficiency.  This is assuming they didn't give all that up for clock speed. While the 16 core is probably going to be very power efficient it will still draw a ton of current at load. There are probably only 6-8 boards in existence that might handle an overclocked 16 core by my napkin math. My guess is the R9 and possibly the R7 CPU's will require x570. They may be able to run at reduced performance with current limits built into the bios on the old boards though.  Anyone going for those top tier CPU's will probably want the x570 anyway. I think the Zen2 R3 and R5 will do great on the old boards. I'm almost confident in saying that the R5's will trade blows with the 9900k in games (for $300 less) and could be highly overclocked on the right b450 mobo.