[SOLVED] Can I put a ryzen 5 1600 in an inspiron 5675 without having to update the BIOS?

[mystery267]

My Dell Inspiron 5675 desktop came with a ryzen 3 1200 cpu. I recently broke the cpu (long story) and i wanted to upgrade a little while there's reason to however I don't know which cpu's would need a BIOS update to run or if some would perhaps run basic functions just enough for me to download the necessary update from dell?
I'm looking at getting the Ryzen 5 1600
Is there a marked difference between the 1600 and 1600x?
Dell said that my inspiron supports 1600x so I was thinking that it should surely be fine with the 1600 too.
any thoughts/ experienced advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Barty1884]

Looks like the 5675 could be configured with a variety of CPUs from the Ryzen3 through to a Ryzen7 1800X

I can't find any documentation that 100% confirms a 1600 is compatible, but I see no reason it wouldn't.

A 1600X is a pre-binned/slightly overclocked 1600. There's a slight performance gain to be had with a 1600X in some applications, but given the thermal constraints of the 5675, I'd expect them to perform very, very similarly, if not identically.

 

[mystery267]

Looks like the 5675 could be configured with a variety of CPUs from the Ryzen3 through to a Ryzen7 1800X

I can't find any documentation that 100% confirms a 1600 is compatible, but I see no reason it wouldn't.

A 1600X is a pre-binned/slightly overclocked 1600. There's a slight performance gain to be had with a 1600X in some applications, but given the thermal constraints of the 5675, I'd expect them to perform very, very similarly, if not identically.

Thanks very much for the advice. I'll give the 1600 a go then, it comes with the heatsink and fan and is cheaper than the ryzen 5 1400 at the minute. I will be longer without a PC if it doesn't work but I think it's worth a shot