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I'm buying an X570 motherboard and a 5800X, however the board needs to be updated to be usable with 5000 series processors. I don't have a older cpu to give the board a bios update, what choices do I have? I have heard AMD does cpu loans for updating bios, can someone share the link I cannot find it. The motherboard I chose is this and it doesn't have a flashback.
ASUS Prime X570-Pro AM4 Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 & 3rd Gen Ryzen ATX Motherboard with PCIe Gen4, Dual M.2 HDMI, SATA 6GB/s USB 3.2 Gen 2 ATX Motherboard

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9 minutes ago, Sapphire1217 said:

I have heard AMD does cpu loans for updating bios, can someone share the link I cannot find it.

AMD still does provide a boot kit in order to update the BIOS.

This can be found at here: https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-100#faq-Short-Term-Processor-Loan-Boot-Kit

 

Besides getting a supported CPU to update the BIOS, the only other thing I can think of to do is to find a motherboard that does not require the CPU or RAM installed that you are able to do a BIOS update on. 

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CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X ||  CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 Air Cooler ||  RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB(4x8GB) DDR4-3600 CL18  ||  Mobo: ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero X570  ||  SSD: Samsung 970 EVO 1TB M.2-2280 Boot Drive/Some Games)  ||  HDD: 2X Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB(Game Drive)  ||  GPU: ASUS TUF Gaming RX 6900XT  ||  PSU: EVGA P2 1600W  ||  Case: Corsair 5000D Airflow  ||  Mouse: Logitech G502 Hero SE RGB  ||  Keyboard: Logitech G513 Carbon RGB with GX Blue Clicky Switches  ||  Mouse Pad: MAINGEAR ASSIST XL ||  Monitor: ASUS TUF Gaming VG34VQL1B 34" 

 

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15 minutes ago, SpiderMan said:

AMD still does provide a boot kit in order to update the BIOS.

This can be found at here: https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-100#faq-Short-Term-Processor-Loan-Boot-Kit

 

Besides getting a supported CPU to update the BIOS, the only other thing I can think of to do is to find a motherboard that does not require the CPU or RAM installed that you are able to do a BIOS update on. 

this link is for 3rd gen processors and x470/b450 motherboards. Would I still go through even though mine is 5000 series and an x570?

 

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8 minutes ago, Sapphire1217 said:

this link is for 3rd gen processors and x570/b450 motherboards. Would I still go through even though mine is 5000 series and an x570?

 

It's worth a shot. I wouldn't imagine they can't send it out to you unless the ASUS X570-Pro motherboard you are getting, has an updated BIOS that supports AMD Ryzen 5000 series out of the box, depending on if it's fresh stock or stock laying around for months before these CPUs came out. 

CPU Cooler Tier List  || Motherboard VRMs Tier List || Motherboard Beep & POST Codes || Graphics Card Tier List || PSU Tier List 

 

Main System Specifications: 

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X ||  CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 Air Cooler ||  RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB(4x8GB) DDR4-3600 CL18  ||  Mobo: ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero X570  ||  SSD: Samsung 970 EVO 1TB M.2-2280 Boot Drive/Some Games)  ||  HDD: 2X Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB(Game Drive)  ||  GPU: ASUS TUF Gaming RX 6900XT  ||  PSU: EVGA P2 1600W  ||  Case: Corsair 5000D Airflow  ||  Mouse: Logitech G502 Hero SE RGB  ||  Keyboard: Logitech G513 Carbon RGB with GX Blue Clicky Switches  ||  Mouse Pad: MAINGEAR ASSIST XL ||  Monitor: ASUS TUF Gaming VG34VQL1B 34" 

 

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12 minutes ago, Sapphire1217 said:

this link is for 3rd gen processors and x570/b450 motherboards. Would I still go through even though mine is 5000 series and an x570?

 

if you're patient i'd try the motherboard with the core without an update. i got an x570 with my 5600X and never had an issue. 

if it doesn't work, try to get the boot kit. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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