Will I be able to boot my PC with the CPU I have?

[Bleamy]

Building a new PC soon and I was kind of oblivious when buying parts, I bought a Ryzen 5 5600x and for my motherboard I bought a MSI B450 Tomahawk Max ll. It says online that this motherboard supports the CPU but it will need a BIOS update, does this mean I cant boot the system without the BIOS update? Is there another way for me to update the BIOS if it cant boot?

 

 

CPU in question

 

Motherboard in question

 

[Skiiwee29]

If the motherboard box says Ryzen 5000 series ready on it, you should be good to go. If not, that motherboard does feature BIOS flashback, so you should be able to flash a new BIOS onto the board with an unsupported CPU following your motherboard manuals instructions. 

[Bleamy]

8 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

If the motherboard box says Ryzen 5000 series ready on it, you should be good to go. If not, that motherboard does feature BIOS flashback, so you should be able to flash a new BIOS onto the board with an unsupported CPU following your motherboard manuals instructions. 

I looked around online and some websites say it does support the ryzen 5000 series and some say it doesnt, will it hurt any parts if I just plug it in and try?

[Skiiwee29]

Just now, Bleamy said:

I looked around online and some websites say it does support the ryzen 5000 series and some say it doesnt, will it hurt any parts if I just plug it in and try?

No, it won't hurt it. The B450 does support the 5000 series, but not without a BIOS update. This is likely where the confusion lies from the comments you've read. If you get no post from it, assuming you have everything hooked up correctly with a discrete GPU, then you can utilize the BIOS flashback feature of the board to update to a BIOS that does support the 5600x.