300 series msi motherboards will not support cpus ryzen 3000

Although AMD promised that the new series of Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 processors would be compatible with all AM4 motherboards, some manufacturers are not going to be able to offer compatibility with their motherboards because of the capacity (MB) offered by their BIOS. MSI motherboards will not support compatibility with third generation Ryzen “Matisse” (Ryzen 3000) processors on their AMD 300 series motherboards, including those based on high-end AMD X370 and B350 chipsets compatible with OC

MSI will not be able to support new Ryzen 3000 processors on 300 series motherboards

This would also affect those who own X370 XPower motherboards. To recap, AMD announced on numerous occasions that it does not want to be a greedy clique like its competitor, forcing updates to motherboards and promised that those with AM4 socket will be compatible with at least four generations of Ryzen processors, running until 2020.

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This should normally mean that any 300 series motherboard must support 3rd and 4th generation Ryzen processors with a simple BIOS update.

MSI confirms this by email

Unfortunately, MSI's 32MB physical BIOS capacity limitation does not meet the minimum requirements for third-generation Ryzen processors. Yes, we think it is one of the things to improve on future motherboards and knowing MSI will not happen again.

In a support email to an owner of the X370 XPower Titanium, MSI confirmed that it will not extend Zen 2 support to AMD's 300 series. Other motherboard vendors could pass something similar to it than MSI, according to TechPowerUp sources.

The explanations they give is that "Zen 2" processors have stricter electrical requirements that 300 series motherboards do not meet. Many will think this is an excuse similar to what Intel gave for the planned obsolescence of its 100 and 200 series chipsets, even when those motherboards were repeatedly shown to be capable of working and overclocking ninth-generation processors with custom firmware. But no, it is a hardware problem, since they did not know the new requirements of the third generation.

Editorial edition: Thanks to MSI Spain, we have been solved several of the unknowns that existed. As we have said, we are sure that they will take action on the matter and in the launch of new motherboards they will put BIOS with a larger size and will heal in health before future updates.

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