ASUS has announced the availability of a BIOS update to support all the features and capabilities of the Ryzen 7000X3D, AMD’s special series of processors that uses 3D V-Cache technology.
As expected from the world’s number one motherboard retailer, support for new processors will be full and completeand will reach its entire catalog of motherboards with AM5 socket and X670E/X670 chipset, from the ROG Crosshair, ROG Strix, TUF Gaming, ProArt and Prime series.
In this way, any user who buys (or buys in the future) an ASUS board will have the guarantee of being able to mount AMD’s most advanced line of processors for desktops and the possibility of installing one of its three models, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. 8-core/16-thread, the 12-core/24-thread Ryzen 9 7900X3D and the top-of-the-line 16-core/32-thread Ryzen 9 7950X3D that AMD cites as the fastest gaming CPU on the planet.
You already know that all three work at high frequencies with a limit above 5 GHz (5.0, 5.6 and 5.7 GHz respectively) and like all the “X” models have the multiplier unlocked to facilitate overclocking. The trio has a TDP consumption of 120 watts and a total cache of 104, 140 and 144 Mbytes. If you want to support them properly, you have to update this firmware.
Updating the BIOS/UEFI
If a few years ago it was a more complex and insecure process, today it is much simpler thanks to the new UEFI, the first program that runs when a computer starts up and has the objective of providing low-level communication, operation and the basic system configuration. In other words, it manages and controls that the hardware is correctly supported before the operating system boots.
The new UEFIs have security systems to avoid errors; double BIOS in case one of them fails; direct update from the Internet or even from the operating system itself without having to store the new version on an external storage medium.
ASUS has a detailed guide on its support page to carry out this type of update and for our part we have published several guides and tutorials to carry out the process on motherboards of any brand. All manufacturers publish new versions of these programs from time to time to solve errors or vulnerabilities, add new features or as in this case add support for new processors.
