ASUS ROG forum members have discovered a weird manner of enabling assist for AMD Ryzen ‘Zen 3’ Desktop CPUs on their ASUS X370 sequence motherboards utilizing BIOS from ASRock’s B450 boards.
AMD Ryzen ‘Zen 3’ CPU Assist Enabled on ASUS X370 Motherboards Utilizing BIOS From ASRock’s B450 Boards
It is fairly mind-boggling to see individuals going to those extends to allow assist for a sure line of processors on their motherboards that are not formally supported. The principle subject is that AMD itself had blocked motherboard producers from providing Ryzen 5000 ‘Zen 3’ Desktop CPUs assist on older X370 motherboards. This meant that customers of ASUS motherboards & varied different manufacturers have been reduce off from a era of processors which they have been initially mentioned to get assist for.
Now X370 motherboard homeowners, notably from the ASUS model, have discovered a option to cross flash their X370 & B350 motherboards to their X470 / B450 equal. However here is the place issues get extra attention-grabbing. Not solely are the older 300-series boards being cross flashed with new 400-series BIOS however the ASUS 300-series motherboards may very well be cross flashed with ASRock 400-series board BIOS and work like a allure.
Quick instruction easy methods to get Zen3 assist on this motherboard [ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero, X370]
- Obtain archive – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TEw8Q4tlb3CAGYDfgWa16MtSGuryyFev/view
- Unpack archive to some folder and create usb bootable flashdrive utilizing rufus-3.13p.exe, copy afudos and bios.rom to bootable usb flashdrive
- Boot from USB drive and kind in command line: afudos bios.rom /gan
- Wait till flashing course of come over and reboot the system, set up Zen3 CPU
You may at all times flashback to unique bios utilizing flashback button (simply just remember to have some older CPU besides up)
Word: Bios is from Asrock b450 Professional R2.0 (v 4.50), don’t replace it to newer agesa in case you have Zen3 CPU
When you’ve got Zen2 CPU and need to get SAMResize bar assist – replace bios to v4.80 Agesa 1.2.0.0 (obtain bios from Asrock web site)
Additional info from Overclock.internet Boards reveals that ASRock 400-series BIOS works finest with ASUS’s 300-series motherboards. Flashing BIOS from Gigabyte and BIOSTAR 400-series line renders the PC unusable for the reason that PC is unable besides. Flashing the ASRock BIOS although enables you to boot by SATA drives and AMD Ryzen 5000 ‘Zen 3’ chips work with none subject although you do lack NVMe assist and resizable-BAR.
ASRock additionally silently launched AMD Ryzen 5000 ‘Zen 3’ CPU assist for its 300-series lineup and you may see that even their older X370 BIOS can be utilized to allow assist on ASUS’s 300-series boards whereas retaining NVMe assist.
ASRock bioses haven’t any Re-size BAR assist, Gigabyte bioses haven’t any POST (even it was reported semi-working earlier than), Biostar Bioses assist Re-size BAR and it really works, however they’ve nasty Chilly boot bug besides X470 GT8. It boots nice from chilly begin, re-size BAR works, Fan works bizarre for this rom. Home windows apps like Fancontrol or Argus Monitor can regulate speeds however fan pace values works reverse. 0% on app makes 100% for fan, %50 and %50+ on app makes 0% for fan. This X470 GT8 bios has a bizarre bug. PCI Categorical 3.0 x16 slot works at 3.0 8x. That is the one bios that does PCI-Categorical pace reducing to half.
Nicely, that is excellent news for customers who’ve been ready to discover a option to run the model new AMD Ryzen 5000 ‘Zen 3’ Desktop CPU on their nonetheless, highly-capable, ASUS ROG 300-series motherboard. The ASUS ROG Crosshair VI HERO was the primary ROG AM4 motherboard and nonetheless holds potential so there’s simply no excuse to maintain it restricted to Zen 2 Desktop CPUs. Customers might be seen operating varied Zen 3 CPUs on the motherboard with this cross flashing technique and with the CPU lineup accessible at low cost, there is not any stopping customers from getting a model new chip for his or her outdated but nonetheless trusty 300 sequence board.
