AM4 2 rev motherboards

[PovilJ]

Hello, so I am getting ryzen 1700x, but I am looking at all those posts where are problems with mobos. Maybe you know how long does it take for manufactures to release 2 rev mobos? Cuz I am to scared to buy at the moment.

[yathis]

Just buy intel if you need something right now, otherwise you need to wait, sounds to me like you have not boughten anything yet.

I dont know how long you should wait, easily a few months.... EASILY!

[manikyath]

i'd dare to say that anything needing fixing is software/firmware wise, so if you buy now it'll be patched out trough bios updates. 

 

beyond that, the problems i've seen talked about seem to be all very minor things like:

limted overclockability (not that much of a dealbreaker if you cant hit 5GHz tbh..),

benchmarks showing inaccurate results (i mean.. you arent buying your pc just for the benchmarks, i'm guessing),

IOMMU groups with virtualization passtrough (if this is a weird asian language to you, it's not something to worry about)

[PovilJ]

11 minutes ago, manikyath said:

i'd dare to say that anything needing fixing is software/firmware wise, so if you buy now it'll be patched out trough bios updates. 

 

beyond that, the problems i've seen talked about seem to be all very minor things like:

limted overclockability (not that much of a dealbreaker if you cant hit 5GHz tbh..),

benchmarks showing inaccurate results (i mean.. you arent buying your pc just for the benchmarks, i'm guessing),

IOMMU groups with virtualization passtrough (if this is a weird asian language to you, it's not something to worry about)

So my CPU arrives in like 2 weeks. Is it smart to maybe wait like a month for maybe already updates mobos? Cuz I heard asus mobos can get bricked while updating bios

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, PovilJ said:

Cuz I heard asus mobos can get bricked while updating bios

that's not really a problem anymore, if you dont do anything obviously stupid (like turning off the system mid-update) there's pretty much nothing that can go wrong.

 

as for asus speciflcly.. i've never heard that, and it honestly sounds like someone *managed to brick his mobo* and because he was an idiot he blames the manufacturer for something that *cant possibly have been his fault* before screaming that loud enough to make people believe it as a truth.

[Enderman]

13 minutes ago, PovilJ said:

So my CPU arrives in like 2 weeks. Is it smart to maybe wait like a month for maybe already updates mobos? Cuz I heard asus mobos can get bricked while updating bios

7 minutes ago, manikyath said:

that's not really a problem anymore, if you dont do anything obviously stupid (like turning off the system mid-update) there's pretty much nothing that can go wrong.

 

as for asus speciflcly.. i've never heard that, and it honestly sounds like someone *managed to brick his mobo* and because he was an idiot he blames the manufacturer for something that *cant possibly have been his fault* before screaming that loud enough to make people believe it as a truth.

Any motherboard can get bricked when flashing a BIOS.

It is actually fairly common.

You don't need to do anything wrong, many times you just start the flash, it gets half way, and gets stuck there and never finishes.

Only thing you can do is power off, and the board is bricked.

 

This is why you should never update a BIOS unless you 100% need to, for example when trying to use a kaby lake CPU on a 170 board.

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

It is actually fairly common.

it used to be fairly common, i've actually havent heard of anyone -even people who do it as their day job- having it happen in recent years.

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

it used to be fairly common, i've actually havent heard of anyone -even people who do it as their day job- having it happen in recent years.

It still happens. Nothing has changed...

Maybe you're just seeing less.

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

It still happens. Nothing has changed...

Maybe you're just seeing less.

i'm seeing more, if anything.

[Evanair]

22 minutes ago, manikyath said:

as for asus speciflcly.. i've never heard that, and it honestly sounds like someone *managed to brick his mobo* and because he was an idiot he blames the manufacturer for something that *cant possibly have been his fault* before screaming that loud enough to make people believe it as a truth.

The asus Hero board will brick itself quite often during a BIOS flash using it's USB flashback.  The most successful method (the one I use) is EZ Flash in windows.  Done it 4 times.