Will this motherboard be compatible with the new Ryzen 5600x/5800x?

brasseyebaby · 26 Oct 2020 at 09:34

This is my first time using AMD since the Athlon days!

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...4-x570-chipset-atx-motherboard-mb-34h-ms.html

Griff7520 · 26 Oct 2020 at 09:42

yes....any b550 or x570 is good to go.

brasseyebaby · 26 Oct 2020 at 09:45

Lovely, didn't know that! Thank you

Griff7520 · 26 Oct 2020 at 09:53

before you buy just make sure you dont need a bios update, I know those chipsets are compatable but maybe the latest bios is needed, sure someone on here will clarify.

Griff7520 · 26 Oct 2020 at 09:56

some info here
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/ja9t0m/b550_x570_out_of_the_box_ryzen_5000_support/

brasseyebaby · 26 Oct 2020 at 10:38

Cheers lads (or ladies) much appreciated!

COYS · 26 Oct 2020 at 15:45

If the board has 'M-Flash' then you can flash the BIOS without a CPU present, in the event it doesn't come with the latest BIOS already updated for the Zen3.

I'm not sure this motherboard has M-Flash so just check.

Griff7520 · 26 Oct 2020 at 16:22

for an extra £10 the gaming edge wifi is available and I believe that does have bios flash back button, its a better board than the one you was looking at as well.

Vogon · 26 Oct 2020 at 16:50

gaming edge wifi = bad steer clear.
In fact any MSI X570 or b550, other than tomahawk boards, preferably avoid.
For the ops budget, personally I would go msi Tomahawk B550. (has bios flash back).
If wanting an X570 board the Tomahawk X570 is well rated and fairly widespread (which one hopes would mean lots of help available from users if need be) but might be too pricey.
Otherwise look at Asus or Gigabyte B550/X570 boards with a form of bios flash without cpu.

EsaT · 26 Oct 2020 at 17:57

It works, but's it's not that good.
Out of lower half of MSI's X570 range only Tomahawk has proper VRM for the price.
Others use copypasta VRM from £100 B450 boards. (or equal)
And what was best in B450 is super low end garbage in X570 scale:
https://www.io-tech.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/x570-bench-oc-vrm-temp-1.png

Though for mid level budget B550 is more reasonable choise.
In them MSI again has good VRMs down to £150 price level.

lee32uk · 26 Oct 2020 at 21:11

Vogon said:
gaming edge wifi = bad steer clear.
In fact any MSI X570 or b550, other than tomahawk boards, preferably avoid.
For the ops budget, personally I would go msi Tomahawk B550. (has bios flash back).
If wanting an X570 board the Tomahawk X570 is well rated and fairly widespread (which one hopes would mean lots of help available from users if need be) but might be too pricey.
Otherwise look at Asus or Gigabyte B550/X570 boards with a form of bios flash without cpu.

The X570 Gaming Edge Wifi is awful, but the B550 version is solid. I would take the B550 Gaming Edge Wifi over the Tomahawk, just because Wifi 6 is a better feature than an extra LAN port imo.