The latest gigabyte x370 k7 bios can burn your ryzen

Users of the Gigabyte X370 K7 motherboard have been reporting an issue related to the latest F5 BIOS and related to the dynamic processor voltage that can go up to 1.7v putting Ryzen's health in jeopardy.

Gigabyte X370 K7 has a problem with the vCore

Gigabyte X370 K7 has seen how its BIOS F5 has deconfigured its Dynamic vCore technology to the point that the vCore is overflowed until reaching highly recommended values ​​for the health of the processor. Initially, values ​​of 1.55v were reported, but then cases have been reported in which it has even reached 1.7v, an extremely high figure that seriously puts the health of AMD Ryzen processors at risk.

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In the event that you have the Gigabyte X370 K7 motherboard with the F5 BIOS installed, it is very important that you access the configuration and manually compensate the value of vCore through LLC (Load Line Calibration), otherwise your Ryzen processor runs a serious risk of passing to better life. New reports indicate that the Gigabyte X370 K5 could also be affected by this problem, so it is not ruled out that new models will be added to the list soon.

You can also mount an older BIOS that is exempt from this problem. Remember that you can measure the voltage from BIOS or from applications like CPU-Z.

The AM4 platform still has many things to improve so the motherboard manufacturers do not stop taking out new BIOSes with the intention of offering users the best possible performance, with so many updates it is not surprising that problems like this appear.

Source: techpowerup