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Make sure to buy a motherboard that allows flashing without a cpu. Or you may find you need a older cpu to flash it before you can use the 5000 series. Look for ones that have a Flashback feature or whatever the manufacturer calls it.


OR make sure the motherboard is already flashed for the 5000 series.
That may not be necessary for X570 or B550 boards. According to hardware unboxed, an update was released in July/August that enables them to boot with Ryzen 5000 CPUs
 
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That may not be necessary for X570 or B550 boards. According to hardware unboxed, an update was released in July/August that enables them to boot with Ryzen 5000 CPUs


Yup but depends when he purchased his motherboard and if it was old stock and not the newer updated ones, so best to check and make sure at least to have a flashback option without a cpu.
 
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On my X570 Xtreme Board the latest BIOS F30 is buggy as all hell - with it on at random my machine restarts out of the blue entirely by itself - had to roll back to F22 which is rock stable. Hope the launch BIOS is better as I'll replace the 3900X with either 5900X or 5950X
 
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At launch its supporting X570 and B550 with B450 and X470 entering beta support in January (according to Gamers Nexus). No mention of B350 so I think you will have to
Yeah a bit worrying, I have b350 and with 5000 series coming out in 2020 I was hoping they would be supported (given AMD's commitment a few years ago). To be honest, at these prices I wouldn't bite anyway, maybe I'll keep an eye out to see what happens with 3900x prices next year, or any budget mobo options that support 5800x and then move the b350 to my son's PC.
 
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Im curios to know about a complete build

Currently have a 1800x and a 1080


So wanna upgrade to a 5900x and a 3090

Are the new 5000 series chips going to be apart of the build configurator if they are available for preorder?

TIA
 
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Isnt the i9 10900k cheaper than the 5900X?

Guess we’ll only know which is quicker for gaming when benchmarks are released for the 5900X. Havent only a select few games been benched so far?
 
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Isnt the i9 10900k cheaper than the 5900X?

Guess we’ll only know which is quicker for gaming when benchmarks are released for the 5900X. Havent only a select few games been benched so far?
Marginally cheaper I'd imagine, but once you factor in the extra cores and significantly better productivity performance I think its a better buy. Even if gaming performance is slightly worse
 
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Isnt the i9 10900k cheaper than the 5900X?

Guess we’ll only know which is quicker for gaming when benchmarks are released for the 5900X. Havent only a select few games been benched so far?
The 10850K is cheaper than the 5800X which makes it a very good option.
 
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Marginally cheaper I'd imagine, but once you factor in the extra cores and significantly better productivity performance I think its a better buy. Even if gaming performance is slightly worse
Yeh guess so. The increase in price does widen the choices slightly
 
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Thanks.
Certainly seems like Intel is able to compete with Zen 3 due to the increased price.
Is there anything new on the horizon from Intel?
Rocket lake is due to arrive early next year which is a back port of intels 10nm to 14 but as its a new arc it should have some decent IPC improvements and it also supports PCIe gen 4.0
 
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Backwards compatibility is a big advantage for AMD though. If you bought a board for Ryzen 2000 series chances are you're set for zen3. Intel makes you buy a new board for almost every new generation

What does this mean on B550 / X570?
Does it mean they don’t fully support Ryzen 5 and PCI-e 4.0?
“*Not compatible with AMD Ryzen™ 5 3400G and Ryzen™ 3 3200G”
 
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