[SOLVED] CPU upgrade

[Farkas Sandor]

Hi there , I have an AMD R5 1600x and I wanna upgrade it to the latest and greatest R5 3600 . It is possible that my mobo would`nt support it ? I have a AsRock AB350 Pro 4 motherboard with the 1st gen of b350 chipset , paired with 8gb of 3200 mhz RAM + a Aorus GTX 1070ti GPU. The system is powered by a EVGA BQ650 PSU , with 650W 80+ bronze . My question is : Is the r5 3600 supported by the motherboard? Is it any bottleneck between the CPU and GPU? (Sorry for my english )
Thx in advance.

 

[DMAN999]

You will need to Update your BIOS to version 5.80 to use a Ryzen 5 3600.
Make SURE you read the notes BEFORE you flash an updated BIOS and follow all instructions carefully:

• Please install "AMD all in 1 with VGA driver ver:18.50.16.01_WHQL" or a later version before updating to this BIOS.
• If you updated the BIOS before updating the AMD all in one driver, please refer to the Display recovery SOP to recover your system.
• If the current BIOS version is older than P5.40, please update BIOS to P5.40(PinnaclePI-AM4_1.0.0.6) before updating this version.
• User will not able to flash previous BIOS once upgrading to this BIOS version.

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/AB350 Pro4/#BIOS
And Flash it using InstantFlash:
https://www.asrock.com/support/BIOSIG.asp?cat=BIOS10

 

[13thmonkey]

with the right bios yes. https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/AB350 Pro4/#CPU
this gives an idea of what it can cope with. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...IVNyMatydkpFA/htmlview?sle=true#gid=639584818

 

[Riddlich]

here is a video who tested and explain how to do it

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpYiJ9h05JM