12-10-2020, 08:41 AM
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ryzen-...alpha-bios
Quote:Recent reports of new Ryzen 5000 processors running on ASRock's A320 motherboard has generated plenty of excitement. Now, a new BIOS posted at jzeletronic.de enables support for AMD's Ryzen 5000 and Renoir processors on ASRock's X370 Taichi and Professional motherboards (via @komachi_ensaka). For those not in the know, AMD has expressly stated that support for Ryzen 5000 processors will not come to 300-series motherboards, making this an interesting development. We pinged AMD on the matter, and the company issued the following statement to Tom's Hardware:
"AMD has no plans to enable or support AMD Ryzen 5000 series on AMD 300 series chipsets."
Regardless, it appears this is the first publicly-available BIOS that enables Zen 3 support on an X370 motherboard (with serious caveats we'll outline below). AMD only officially supports the Ryzen 5000 models on 500-series motherboards for now, but the company is currently working to bring complete compatibility with 400-series motherboards in January 2021.