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3 minutes ago, GrayTech said:

You do have to update you BIOS to use a Kaby Lake Chip on an 100 Series Intel motherboard for example. And for this motherboard you need at least BIOS version F6 for Ryzen 5 CPU support and at least F3 (first version) for Ryzen 7. So the question is if I can still use the R5 CPU even though the BIOS version that might be installed on the board doesn't support it. Because I don't think you can.

You can use because its the same architecture. The architecture between eg the 6700k and 7700k was slightly different which is why the 170/110 boards need a bios flash.

 

Think of Ryzen 5 and 7 the same as Kabylake i5 and Kabylake i7 with the different chips making up the i5 (7400, 7500, 7600k) and i7 (7700 and 7700k) ranges

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Hello

I want to buy a Ryzen 5 1600 and a Gigabyte B350 Gaming 3. Do I have to pay for a BIOS update to be able to run the R5?

Thanks

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No

 

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I've never heard of buying bios updates, the only time I've heard of this is for Firmware updates that offer additional functionality on AV receivers, My Denon X4200 is a prime example, I can have Aura 3D audio, but the firmware costs like £100

 

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Just now, stealth80 said:

I've never heard of buying bios updates

You do have to update you BIOS to use a Kaby Lake Chip on an 100 Series Intel motherboard for example. And for this motherboard you need at least BIOS version F6 for Ryzen 5 CPU support and at least F3 (first version) for Ryzen 7. So the question is if I can still use the R5 CPU even though the BIOS version that might be installed on the board doesn't support it. Because I don't think you can.

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Ryzen 5 1600 3.8GHz - RX 570 4GB - 2x8GB DDR4 - ASUS Prime X370-Pro - Shadow Rock 2 - Define S - Seasonic Prime Gold 650W

500GB NVME SSD - 1TB SATA SSD - 1TB HDD - Windows 10 Pro

Dorm PC:

i5 4590 - GTX 960 4GB - 2x4GB DDR3 - ASUS H81M2 - Dark Rock 3 - Define R3 - 250GB SATA SSD - Seasonic S12 430W - Windows 10 Pro - Linux Mint

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3 minutes ago, GrayTech said:

You do have to update you BIOS to use a Kaby Lake Chip on an 100 Series Intel motherboard for example. And for this motherboard you need at least BIOS version F6 for Ryzen 5 CPU support and at least F3 (first version) for Ryzen 7. So the question is if I can still use the R5 CPU even though the BIOS version that might be installed on the board doesn't support it. Because I don't think you can.

You can use because its the same architecture. The architecture between eg the 6700k and 7700k was slightly different which is why the 170/110 boards need a bios flash.

 

Think of Ryzen 5 and 7 the same as Kabylake i5 and Kabylake i7 with the different chips making up the i5 (7400, 7500, 7600k) and i7 (7700 and 7700k) ranges

 

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20 hours ago, stealth80 said:

You can use because its the same architecture. The architecture between eg the 6700k and 7700k was slightly different which is why the 170/110 boards need a bios flash.

 

Think of Ryzen 5 and 7 the same as Kabylake i5 and Kabylake i7 with the different chips making up the i5 (7400, 7500, 7600k) and i7 (7700 and 7700k) ranges

Oke! I will probably update the bios myself. Thanks.

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Ryzen 5 1600 3.8GHz - RX 570 4GB - 2x8GB DDR4 - ASUS Prime X370-Pro - Shadow Rock 2 - Define S - Seasonic Prime Gold 650W

500GB NVME SSD - 1TB SATA SSD - 1TB HDD - Windows 10 Pro

Dorm PC:

i5 4590 - GTX 960 4GB - 2x4GB DDR3 - ASUS H81M2 - Dark Rock 3 - Define R3 - 250GB SATA SSD - Seasonic S12 430W - Windows 10 Pro - Linux Mint

NAS:

Pentium G4400 - 4GB DDR4 - Fujitsu Esprimo P556 - 250GB SATA SSD - 2 x 4TB NAS HDD - 12V PSU - OpenMediaVault

Laptop:

Dell Latitude E6520 - i5 2430M - 2x4GB DDR3 - 250GB SATA SSD - Windows 10 Pro - Linux Mint

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