Some asus x470 / b450 motherboards will support ryzen 3000 with pcie gen 4

Less than a week after the launch of Ryzen 3000, some brands have already released their BIOS updates. Today the protagonists are ASUS motherboards, since some older models support PCIe Gen 4 .

The international AMD flatly denied in Computex the support for old plates, but, against all odds, we have today the investigations on ASUS .

Some ASUS X470 and B450 motherboards will come with PCIe Gen 4

According to some users, we have a selection of specific ASUS motherboards with support for PCIe Gen 4.

Thanks to the firmware released by the manufacturer, despite having PCIe Gen 2 connections on these boards, the processor is still able to offer its PCIe Gen 4 lines. In this way, some users in Asia report having been able to get 16 lines for the graphics and 4 for NVMe M.2 SSDs.

The same company has released this image where it lists the different boards and what technologies they support:

From this list, users have been testing its veracity and the results are mixed.

For the ASUS B450 motherboards, of the 13 targeted, 10 offered the complete PCIe Gen 4 pack . However, the three Strix models only support the lines for M.2 NVMe SSDs, so, more or less, everything agrees with what announced.

On the other hand, for the X470 boards (somewhat more expensive) , none of the 6 motherboards have given totally positive results. The best of them only offered support for 8 lines or directly did not work.

These features are enabled through BIOS updates, so we don't know if the brand is yet to release new software. To make the job a little easier, ASUS Asia has released a list of the latest BIOS updates for each motherboard.

Of course, if ASUS motherboards stably and reliably enable this technology, they could be quite relevant. Overnight, they would become the only chance to get a cheap motherboard with PCIe Gen4.

And you, would you buy an ASUS motherboard? Do you think other brands will add to the car?