Hello, (
if you are going to go ahead with this, be 100% sure the following links are the correct ones for your motherboard brand and model)
I
believe this is your motherboard:
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/A320M-PRO-VH-PLUS#support-cpu, so if you see at that official page as long as you have the correct BIOS version you will be able to run the Ryzen 5 3600.
If your BIOS version is too old you will have to update it. Updating BIOS could be somehow difficult if you never done it.
This should be the donwload page:
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/A320M-PRO-VH-PLUS#down-bios
You shall find your current one (down the stack) and start to look up and follow the instructions for each upgrade.
Example:
If you have this version:
7B07v30, and you wana update to this one directly:
7B07v36 (which you should be able to do it),
the instructions said: "It must install nvidia graphic driver ver 391.01 or latest version when using AMD Raven Ridge CPU and nVidia graphic card. " So before updating the BIOS you have to be sure you are using the latest nvidia/amd drivers.
From Bios:
7B07v38, it seems Windows 7 is no longer supported
.
Version:
7B07v3B said: - MSI strongly recommend to update AMD chipset driver 18.10xxxxxxx or latest version before update BIOS.
And so on.
After all that if you managed to go up to BIOS version:
7B07v3GV(Beta version) and the PC is still working fine (most likely should be if you did all ok) , then you should be able to see if the R5 3600 works
. But yeah is a beta BIOS so I would really check on the web for other users comments on the matter
.
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As for installing the new CPU, my best advice will be go and see at least 2 or 3 diferent videos on youtube, for example:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5jFXl0GZJo
The most important advice I would give you are:
- Make sure once again you have the right BIOS version installed before doing anything.
- Turn On the PC and play a game for 10 mins or run a cpu benchmark a few times (Cinebench R20 for example) to heat the old CPU and the old thermal compund a bit.
- Turn Off the PC, unplug the power cable, and if you like to you can go ahead and press the power buttong a few times to discharge every electronic component the best you can before opening the case side panel.
- Unless you have lots of experience installing CPUs, is not a bad idea to have extra isopropyl alcohol and thermal paste in case you need to remount the cooler a few times for whatever reason (usually because the first time it wasn't right mounted and the CPu overheated).
- Follow the guide/video you read/saw.
- Please use your head, this is not rocket science, and if you follow the steps there should be not many issues to prevent you from doing it right.
- Motherboard and CPU manuals (yeah those no one ever read) have also instructions on how to install the CPu and other parts of your PC. So yeah, go and read them too!
Cheers