[SOLVED] need some advice with cpu

[richmmeister]

i bought a ryzen 2700 used and are currently using ryzen 3600, the 2700 doesnt post do i need to downgrade the bios. i would like to know because my 3600 will no longer work if i do so

my motherboard is b450 ds3h.

 

[dorsai]

You may have to down grade the BIOS...you'll have to go to the board website and read the CPU support list which should indicate the BIOS required for each chip.

A question I have though is why would you downgrade from a 3600 to a 2700 ?

Outside of a very small number of application exceptions that truly require nothing but cores thrown at them there is no workload where the 2700 is faster. I know this first hand because I moved from a 2700x to a standard 3600...and the 3600 is equal to or faster than the 2700x in everything I've thrown at it...this includes gaming, video work, and photo work.

 

[richmmeister]

You may have to down grade the BIOS...you'll have to go to the board website and read the CPU support list which should indicate the BIOS required for each chip.

A question I have though is why would you downgrade from a 3600 to a 2700 ?

Outside of a very small number of application exceptions that truly require nothing but cores thrown at them there is no workload where the 2700 is faster. I know this first hand because I moved from a 2700x to a standard 3600...and the 3600 is equal to or faster than the 2700x in everything I've thrown at it...this includes gaming, video work, and photo work.

i just wanna do some benchmarks and heres my cpu support list - https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Motherboard/B450M-DS3H-rev-10/support#support-cpu

im trying to figure out if your on the latest bios does that mean previous versions are added to latest or do you have to downgrade for older cpus to work

 

[drea.drechsler]

i just wanna do some benchmarks and heres my cpu support list - https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Motherboard/B450M-DS3H-rev-10/support#support-cpu

im trying to figure out if your on the latest bios does that mean previous versions are added to latest or do you have to downgrade for older cpus to work

BIOS rev F51 uses AGESA COMBO-PI V1 1.0.0.6. That SHOULD work well with 2nd gen as well as 3rd gen CPU's, but whether it actually works in your case could depend as much on how well Gigabyte enabled.

At any rate, since you're obviously one who has an adventurous spirit it's not going to break your system to just unplug the 3600 and plug in the 2700x to find out if it works. Just be sure to do a CMOS reset first. I'd do it with battery pull, and leave it out for several minutes with the pins shorted too.

But something to keep in mind is that switching BIOS usually means also changing the AGESA code which itself can have major impact on performance, or at least the ability to get better performance from the whole system including (especially) memory. It seems to me that doing this just to collect some benchmarks is pretty meaningless as it's kind of like comparing not apples to oranges maybe, but golden delicious to granny smith apples.