PC Drivers & Software

[Zofiel]

Hi,

I'm planning on upgrading my CPU from the Ryzen 5 1600x to the Ryzen 5 5600x.

I currently have the MSI AMD AM4 Ryzen x370 GAMING PRO ATX Motherboard. I read on one site that these aren't compatible and read in another place that support for it would have been coming in January/February of this year.

Could anyone tell me which of these is the case? I'd rather not upgrade my MOBO if I can avoid it, as it was the one thing I really wanted to futureproof when I bought it in 2018.

Best regards,

Tom.

[ajlueke]

It does not.  Currently, no X370 motherboards officially support Vermeer processors (Ryzen 5000 series).  There are some models where beta UEFI updates have been issued that add support (mostly ASRock boards) but nothing that is officially supported.  

[elstaci]

There is no indications from MSI Support about your X370 Motherboard supporting the 5000 Series Processors.

I would just open a MSI Support ticket and just ask them directly if they are planning on having a BIOS update to support the Vermeer Processors.

Truthfully, I would upgrade your 1600x to a 3000 Series (Matisse) processor and purchase new Ram if the current RAM is not compatible with the Matisse processor you are planning on buying.

From what I read it seems like only ASRock has a Alpha or BETA BIOS update to support their 300 series Taichi Motherboards but AMD will not update the 300 Chipset for the new processors: https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-5000-Vermeer-processors-are-now-functional-on-X370-chipset-m...

"So far, the P6.61 BIOS has been shown working on an X370 Taichi motherboard with a Ryzen 5 5600X processor. When we say working, we mean that Vermeer processors can boot to BIOS on ASRock X370 motherboards; there is no evidence of how stably the P6.61 BIOS behaves when Windows is loaded.

JZelectronic has not explained what Ryzen 5000 features the P6.61 BIOS brings to X370 motherboards, nor will AMD or ASRock comment on the matter. According to Tom's Hardware, AMD stated the following when asked about bringing Ryzen 5000 support to 300-series motherboards:

AMD has no plans to enable or support AMD Ryzen 5000 series on AMD 300 series chipsets."