On October 8 this year, the official presentation of the expected AMD Ryzen processors 5000 based on the Zen architecture took place 3. They are to bring a significant increase in performance over the previous generation, especially in single-threaded performance, and be compatible with the AM4 socket. Shortly after the announcement, manufacturers released the first BIOS versions for motherboards using the new series chipset 500. What about the owners of B 450 and X 2021 ? After ASUS, support for Ryzen 5000 by older motherboards was promised by MSI, this time revealing that the appropriate BIOS will be released for all models with the AMD chipset 400. This is another confirmation of MSI’s support. When will the updates begin?

MSI has officially confirmed all motherboards with AMD chipset 400 will receive a BIOS (beta) that adds support for the latest Ryzen processors 5000. Updates for individual models will be released in January 2021.

ASUS X motherboards 470 and B 450 will handle AMD Ryzen processors 5000

MSI has kept its promise to release AGESA Combo PI V2 1.1.0.0 software for all motherboards mainframes with B 550 and X 570. Users of older designs will have to be patient and – as announced by AMD – BIOSes introducing support for the new Ryzen processors 5000 for B 450 and X 470 will start to appear in January 2021 of the year. They will be available in beta on all MSI motherboards with the series chipset 400 without exception. So this also applies to models without the word MAX with a smaller amount of EEPROM memory. As an aside, we would like to remind you that owners of boards with the AMD chipset 300 (X 370, B 350 and A 320), according to Reds statement, they will not receive Ryzen-enabled BIOSes 5000.

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MSI with the latest press release upheld its official position from a few months ago. We still have to wait for a detailed beta BIOS release plan. MSI will provide a “timetable” for owners of B 450 and X motherboards) after AMD provides them with the BIOS code. Let’s just hope that despite the beta version, it will have no problems with stability after mounting AMD Ryzen processors 5000, and if they do, they will be quickly removed in the next updates . First models of new CPUs from Reds, i.e. Ryzen 5 5600 X, Ryzen 7 5800 X, Ryzen 9 5900 X and Ryzen 9 5950 X, will hit stores on November 5 this year