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No Internet, you still cannot officially use AMD’s newest Ryzen 5000 desktop CPU in ancient motherboards and now, you can’t seem to do it unofficially, either.
Those who own original X370, B350, and A320 boards had already known this as stated fact for some time. But the latest dust-up, covered by WCCFtech’s Hassan Mujtaba, arose when ASRock customers were caught passing around beta BIOSes that actually allowed Ryzen 5000 to go into older boards. Once AMD got wind of the underground dealings, the company put the kibosh on them.
“Hi Jörg, unfortunately, we received AMD’s warning that X370 shouldn’t support Vermeer CPU,” according to an email posted last week, purportedly from ASRock to one popular AMD hardware hacker. “Obviously, some customer didn’t operate it under table, AMD noticed it and said ASRock shouldn’t do this anymore. The attached file is BIOS and it is the last BIOS which I can provide for you in this case, please
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