AMD Raven Ridge Cpu

[Leucon]

So my cousin wants to build a pc, but he doesn’t want it for much, more so for playing games like emulators, fortnite, and league. He also didn’t wanna spend too much on it so I told him to just go wth one of ryzen a apu’s and to leave space in his pc for future upgrades and when we came up with the list of parts on pc part picker, we saw that warning saying some motherboards don’t have bios updates for the new raven ridge cpu’s and I was wondering, what do I do about that? Because it says I would need a cpu that does work on that motherboard and install the bios update with that cpu and then I can put in the raven ridge cpu. Is there an alternative or do I have to buy a cheap cpu and then do the bios update take out the cpu and put in the raven ridge cpu?

[Lord Nicoll]

4 minutes ago, Leucon said:

So my cousin wants to build a pc, but he doesn’t want it for much, more so for playing games like emulators, fortnite, and league. He also didn’t wanna spend too much on it so I told him to just go wth one of ryzen a apu’s and to leave space in his pc for future upgrades and when we came up with the list of parts on pc part picker, we saw that warning saying some motherboards don’t have bios updates for the new raven ridge cpu’s and I was wondering, what do I do about that? Because it says I would need a cpu that does work on that motherboard and install the bios update with that cpu and then I can put in the raven ridge cpu. Is there an alternative or do I have to buy a cheap cpu and then do the bios update take out the cpu and put in the raven ridge cpu?

ASUS boards can update the BIOS without a CPU or RAM, idk if lower end boards have it or not, but AMD will send you out a crappy AM4 CPU for you to boot up and install the new BIOS on if the board doesn't support it out of box, but most boards have more recent BIOSes. 

[LienusLateTips]

You'll need a BIOS update. Higher end B350 ASUS boards have BIOS flashback, but if the board you want doesn't have that function AMD will lend you a shit 5 year old APU which can barely run the Windows desktop, so you can BIOS flash.

 

Unless you want to shell out the US$140 for the cheapest X470 boards.

[Crunchy Dragon]

8 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

ASUS boards can update the BIOS without a CPU or RAM, idk if lower end boards have it or not, but AMD will send you out a crappy AM4 CPU for you to boot up and install the new BIOS on if the board doesn't support it out of box, but most boards have more recent BIOSes. 

Most current boards should have an updated BIOS at this point.

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, LienusLateTips said:

AMD will lend you a shit 5 year old APU

It needs to be an AM4 CPU, they'll send you the lowest end Zen-based A-series chip.

[LienusLateTips]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

It needs to be an AM4 CPU, they'll send you the lowest end Zen-based A-series chip.

Which is a AM4 socket glued onto a 5 year old APU

 

[GoldenLag]

How much does he want to spend on the PC? Im shure i cam construct a very cheap build

[Leucon]

5 hours ago, Lord Nicoll said:

ASUS boards can update the BIOS without a CPU or RAM, idk if lower end boards have it or not, but AMD will send you out a crappy AM4 CPU for you to boot up and install the new BIOS on if the board doesn't support it out of box, but most boards have more recent BIOSes. 

How can I check if the motherboard comes with the bios update needed, I wanted to use this one 

[LienusLateTips]

3 minutes ago, Leucon said:

How can I check if the motherboard comes with the bios update needed, I wanted to use this one 

 

 That one's the highest end B350 ASUS board. It'll have flashback.

[Leucon]

2 minutes ago, LienusLateTips said:

 That one's the highest end B350 ASUS board. It'll have flashback.

Alright, thanks I’ll just tell my cousin to shell out those extra bucks to not have to worry about any bios updates or getting a crappy apu from ryzen and pay to send it back to them

[LienusLateTips]

4 minutes ago, Leucon said:

Alright, thanks I’ll just tell my cousin to shell out those extra bucks to not have to worry about any bios updates or getting a crappy apu from ryzen and pay to send it back to them

Oh, it's all prepaid.