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AMD 970 Chipset may need bios update with Vishera CPUs. Help!

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January 10, 2014 7:10:15 AM

Help!

I just received this incompatibility in my PCPartPicker build. Do I need to change anything like the motherboard or CPU? There was no incompatibilities before!

"Some AMD 970 chipset motherboards may need a BIOS update prior to using Vishera CPUs.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2hIS2

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January 10, 2014 7:17:56 AM

You are fine bios wise with that board. It is the latest revision and has the necessary support out of the box. The warning really only applies to older boards that were made before Vishera was released. All the 970 R2.0 Asus boards were made after Vishera. I hope you don't plan to do any overclocking with that board though...
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January 10, 2014 7:19:52 AM

warning is normal...

-the 970 motherboard did not support fx6300 cpu-s when the motherboards launched because the cpu-s didn't exist yet.
-then the new cpu-s launched, motherboards got a bios upgrade to work with the new cpu-s (and motherboards started to ship from manufacturers to shops with the updated bios versions)
-for the ones already in shops they need to be updated before they work

so now we're in a grey area where there are boards selling with the old bios version so pcpartpicker warns that this could happen...

so if you buy it like this there are the following options:
-you get the new version, you assemble everything and there's 0 issues. (most likely)
-you get the old version, but the cpu still starts, you can assemble it (but restarts, is unstable in general) and after that update the bios
-you get the old version and the pc doesn't start. in this case you need to plug in an older cpu that works properly, update the bios and than plug in the new fx 6300.
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January 10, 2014 7:25:08 AM

logainofhades said:
You are fine bios wise with that board. It is the latest revision and has the necessary support out of the box. The warning really only applies to older boards that were made before Vishera was released. All the 970 R2.0 Asus boards were made after Vishera. I hope you don't plan to do any overclocking with that board though...


No, I don't plan on doing any overclocking.
So will it work properly?
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January 10, 2014 7:26:14 AM

Fortunately all the 970 2.0 Asus boards and boards like the Gigabyte 970a-UD3P were all released well after Vishera CPU's were released. You cannot go wrong with either for bios support.
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January 10, 2014 7:40:09 AM

For a stock CPU, it should be OK. I would probably go with at least the Asus M5A97 R2.0 for a bit more. I prefer to have heatsinks on my VRM's.
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March 7, 2014 11:33:08 AM

logainofhades said:
You are fine bios wise with that board. It is the latest revision and has the necessary support out of the box. The warning really only applies to older boards that were made before Vishera was released. All the 970 R2.0 Asus boards were made after Vishera. I hope you don't plan to do any overclocking with that board though...


ASUS recently posted a DIY with this board/CPU combo overclocking from 3.5 to 4.7. Not sure how long it will last, though..
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2Krjt

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