AMD backtracks, says B450 and X470 motherboards will support Zen 3 architecture

[Lounds]

This is good news but it does then gimp your motherboard support for other CPU's. My B350 has a massive list of CPU's it supports.
https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/PRIME-B350-PLUS/HelpDesk_CPU

from what I remember of the 400 series motherboards when they came out the main difference was the way it handled boost being a bit more intelligent and more smoother of how it jumped the clocks up and down, there was also that storageMI that looked like a good feature, but other than that they appeared to be very similar to the 300 series. I'm happy with my purchase from 2017, I went with the Ryzen 1600 and overclocked to 3.9Ghz based on Steve's recommendations and I'm still happy, at some point when the 3rd gen Ryzen's drop further in price I might pick up an 8 core+ CPU, or just stick with what I've got until DDR5 becomes mainstream.

 

[Irata]

And just because ryzen 3000 series supports 32MB addressing doesn't mean the boards we drop them into have a 32MB bios. It is my understanding that for compatibility reasons, the 400 series motherboards have 16MB BIOSs to allow them to support older chips.

Mine (Tomahawk Max) does. The larger BIOS chip was one of the reasons why I bought this particular board.

How exactly MSI handles the update remains to be seen, but I won‘t flash the new BIOS before I have a Ryzen 3 CPU. I am happy that I will have the option and that the extended support will most likely reduce Ryzen 3000 prices.

 

[Rayneofpayne]

As most of us expected...

AMD may want to manage user expectations a bit better next time.

That is true, but to be honest a socket or platform really shouldn't extend past 3 generations anyways. There is little point to throwing a CPU in an outdated chipset when you realize there are features you won't be able to use.
I would say consumers should have better expectations more realistic with PCs and the price of compatibility.
Tbf I just want DDR5 and PCIe5 already as they represent a major leap rather than the incremental one we are receiving, so I'm a bit jaded, and I believe AMD already gave people great value and def. 1uped Intel already anything beyond that is icing on the cake, and people were just acting like cry babies.

 

[Tams80]

Fantastic PR management by AMD and quite generous of them; they didn't have to do this even given the wording of their own statement of support for these motherboards.

As most of us expected...

AMD may want to manage user expectations a bit better next time.

I think it was some users being a bit entitled. That said, it is good that they are doing this.

 

[Rayneofpayne]

Fantastic PR management by AMD and quite generous of them; they didn't have to do this even given the wording of their own statement of support for these motherboards.



I think it was some users being a bit entitled. That said, it is good that they are doing this.

Exactly, I agree.
They did respond accordingly and met so.ewhere in the middle, now the question is will motherboard manufacturers respond by using what they provide, as it's more in their best interests to sell more product not to do updates or only to mass selling products while leaving the others without this support.

 

[Markoni35]

And that's the power of complaining right there. If you applied the same method to medicine, maybe in a few years we'd have medicine that deserves to exist in the year in which we live.

(Info for time-travelers, it's 2020 at this moment, albeit by the impotence of nowadays medicine you would think it's around 1960).

 

[treetops]

Sigh, we have to wait what 3-4 months for some juicy RDNA 2 tests?