Hello everyone!
Yesterday was finally the day when I had collected enough money and upgraded my CPU, motherboard and RAM. I'm currently on an old i5-3470, intel H61 LGA 1155 motherboard with 16 GB of 1600MHz RAM.
I decided to go for a Ryzen 5 1600 AF, Asrock B450M Pro4-f and 16GB of 3200MHz Kingston HyperX Fury RAM from a local shop which gave me a very good price for the parts.
The parts are supposed to arrive on Monday and I will go pick them up with a pal and we are going to put everything together. I'm worried that the motherboard could need a BIOS update to work with the 1600AF and as you can see, I don't have any Ryzen CPU's laying around. I don't want to bother my friends too.
So far from what I've read, if the motherboard has a Ryzen 3000 ready sticker on the box I shouldn't be worried, but if it doesn't, I have to make the shop update the BIOS for me. I don't know if they would be willing to, though, since it's not a full PC, but only a CPU, motherboard, RAM combo.
Can anyone tell me if you have got a similar CPU + motherboard combo and if you needed a BIOS update despite the missing sticker? It would be a huge bummer if it doesn't work out of the box, especially because I need the PC daily for online classes.
I'm still going to use my SSD, HDD's, RX 570 4GB and my 750W 80 plus PSU (this PSU was running a GTX 580 for a while, which sucked 250W, without any issues). I don't think I would have any issues with these components along with the new ones.
I'm open and asking for advice if there is anything more I could to. Should I bother doing a fresh Windows 10 installation for the new parts or will it be ok?
Thanks in advance!
Slav.
Yesterday was finally the day when I had collected enough money and upgraded my CPU, motherboard and RAM. I'm currently on an old i5-3470, intel H61 LGA 1155 motherboard with 16 GB of 1600MHz RAM.
I decided to go for a Ryzen 5 1600 AF, Asrock B450M Pro4-f and 16GB of 3200MHz Kingston HyperX Fury RAM from a local shop which gave me a very good price for the parts.
The parts are supposed to arrive on Monday and I will go pick them up with a pal and we are going to put everything together. I'm worried that the motherboard could need a BIOS update to work with the 1600AF and as you can see, I don't have any Ryzen CPU's laying around. I don't want to bother my friends too.
So far from what I've read, if the motherboard has a Ryzen 3000 ready sticker on the box I shouldn't be worried, but if it doesn't, I have to make the shop update the BIOS for me. I don't know if they would be willing to, though, since it's not a full PC, but only a CPU, motherboard, RAM combo.
Can anyone tell me if you have got a similar CPU + motherboard combo and if you needed a BIOS update despite the missing sticker? It would be a huge bummer if it doesn't work out of the box, especially because I need the PC daily for online classes.
I'm still going to use my SSD, HDD's, RX 570 4GB and my 750W 80 plus PSU (this PSU was running a GTX 580 for a while, which sucked 250W, without any issues). I don't think I would have any issues with these components along with the new ones.
I'm open and asking for advice if there is anything more I could to. Should I bother doing a fresh Windows 10 installation for the new parts or will it be ok?
Thanks in advance!
Slav.